Almost half of the companies in the US could close this year, says report

 

 Forty-four percent of the 31.7 million small businesses in the country are facing serious threats of closing at the end of the first quarter of the year,

 

Data from an investigation developed by the group of small companies in the United States, known as Alignable.

 

The situation of lack of liquidity of companies is recognized as a consequence not only of the negative effects of the pandemic, but also because of what entrepreneurs recognize as progressive policies that aim to generate higher unemployment, inflation and higher taxes.

 

The economic reactivation that took place during the last quarters of 2020 and in the first weeks of 2021, have remained as data to be remembered by history, but not, as a constant in the country's economy that is rapidly crumbling.

 

The current crisis is leading some 13.9 million small businesses in the country to a critical situation, which are at serious risk of closing their doors before April 1 in the United States, according to the results of the Alignable report.

 

Alignable is the largest online referral network for small businesses with more than 6 million members in North America, and to help illustrate the severity of the current problem American businesses are experiencing, the group conducted a survey of revenue in the first quarter, showing that 44% of SMEs are concerned that they will not be able to earn enough revenue at the end of this quarter to stay afloat.