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Riots And Looting Have Decimated Small Businesses, Which Lack The Insurance Necessary To Repair

Ashe Schow
Riots And Looting Have Decimated Small Businesses, Which Lack The Insurance Necessary To Repair
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The fallout from this summer’s riots — which saw businesses large and small looted and burned to the ground — continues to be seen, as a new report from The New York Times shines a light on the insurance woes faced by those whose livelihoods were destroyed in the name of racial justice.

For months we have been told that property doesn’t matter and that business owners will recoup their losses thanks to insurance, but as the Times found, this is not the case.

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