Cruising around Salt Lake City, it’s impossible not to notice the different businesses and companies being promoted. According to the Lincoln Business Guide, 99.3% of businesses in Utah’s private sector are small businesses. The most notorious of these small businesses are the snack shops scattered all over town. Specialty soda shops have lines bursting.
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Women, especially women of color, are driving small-business growth during a pandemic in which they’ve been hit particularly hard and missed out on help. Mariel Padilla ,
Marcelle Folk thought 2020 was going to be her year. For nearly four years, she had been catering in-person events and mobile bartending from her van, in addition to her full-time federal job as a paralegal in Washington, D.C. The revenue from her catering business had tripled three years in a row, to the point that Folk in February 2020 could quit her job at the Department of Veterans Affairs.