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Black-Owned Businesses And The Pandemic, A Year Later
Fresh Food Generation, a local farm-to-plate home delivery, food truck and catering business, is one of four local Black-owned businesses featured in this special edition of Basic Black.
(Photo courtesy of Fresh Food Generation)
Special Coverage
At the start of the pandemic, there were major setbacks. Between February and April of 2020, the number of Black business owners nationwide dropped by 41 percent, compared to 17 percent of white business owners, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Those numbers rebounded over the summer and into the fall, but other data points suggest that minority business owners have seen their revenue fall more sharply and have had difficulty accessing government help like the Paycheck Protection Program.