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Employees and customers are staying home, business owners are cutting hours, and entire communities are feeling the ripple effects of the ICE crackdown.

Through its textile recycling program, “SUAY it Forward”, they have diverted over 4 million pounds of textiles from landfills.

The rapidly expanding recreational marijuana sector sees plummeting prices and multistate operations pulling out of Michigan.

“Business has been better than I ever expected,” said Joy Schmidt, owner of Moxie Salon and Spa in Yulee, FL.

“I think what you see in this partnership, the residency, is exactly what we've always talked about,” said co-founder Teo Hunter. “Racial equity is a tide that lifts all ships.”

In Eagle Mountain, commercial development hasn’t kept up with population growth. So you might get your hair cut or your dog groomed at someone’s house.

How this oyster farmer found a shucking good industry.

“We want to add something good to Burlington, Vermont,” says co-owner Hannington Kasagga.

“For me, quilting is about our relationship in a lot of ways,” said co-owner Jacqueline Economo about her mother.

“There was a romantic ideal about being in control of your own destiny,” says Backwards Distilling co-founder Amber Pollock.