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It's the American dream entrepreneurs across the country starting their own business.

It's the biggest job creation vehicle the nation has ever seen.

Small businesses are credited for two-thirds of all US jobs over the past decade.

These companies came into the year with a head full of steam,

then the coronavirus hit, and the momentum just stopped.

A full 40% of small businesses do not think they're going to survive.

They're just a lot of smaller businesses that will struggle to make it through this winter.

It's all local small businesses.

That's who is bearing the brunt of this.

We just don't know how long we might be able to stay afloat.

Everybody's going to be out of work and

I'm just going to be deeper in debt. It's been very very sad for our family, for

staff. You know the government programs were designed to bail out the big boys, but they left Main Street behind.

Since the start of the pandemic, we spoke to more than a hundred business owners across the country.

Many shut their doors, some survived, some adapted.

And some suffered personal tragedies while trying to keep their business afloat.

This is their story.

Thanks for joining us on this Bloomberg Radio special report,

examining the pandemic's outsized impact on small business.

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