While most small businesses reported increasing revenues in the past year, alongside fewer instances of contracting margins or staffing difficulties. This positive sentiment is countered by many [00:01:00] small business owners. In particular, those in those rural areas that worry about their longtime survival, threatened most of all by what they qualify as concerns over general macro poor economic conditions, which emerged as the overwhelming primary reasons cited by 46% of those rural, small businesses. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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