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Small businesses in college towns struggle without students

by Associated Press
| August 29, 2020 12:03 AM

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Perry Porikos sat in the street outside one of his five businesses, in a makeshift patio area that didn’t exist before the COVID-19 pandemic sent his best customers — University of Michigan students — back home in mid-March.

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