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Mark Pocan: “292,000 jobs, small businesses were lost in 2025, larger…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 01:13

I'm looking at something right now. First half of this year, small business bankruptcy filings surged up to 50% compared to the same time last year. Joint Economic Committee found Data that said 292,000 jobs, small businesses were lost in 2025, larger than any other year since QuickBooks started reporting these numbers. That's four and a half times larger than the number of jobs lost in 2020 during the pandemic. Donald Trump has been worse than the pandemic in for people, jobs and for small businesses. (01:13–01:24)

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