LIVE UPDATES: Economic Crisis Hits Small Businesses

January 13th, 10:59 p.m.

The House of Small Businesses has successfully passed the Shut the SHOP Up with majority voting in favor of the act..

January 13th, 10:39 p.m.

CloseAI has temporarily halted services.

January 13th, 10:35 p.m.

The committee has begunn discussing solutions on the imminent crisis.

January 13th, 10:21 p.m.

The unemployment rate in America has risen to 14 percent.

January 13th, 10:15 p.m.

Small businesses are being undermined by CloseAI which has created a virtually perfect program for shopping which was purchased by a few large corporations. Riots spread nationwide. There has been division between the action of the House of Small Businesses: to take action on big corporations or allow the free market to flow.

January 13th, 10:01 p.m.

The House Small Business Committee is reporting a huge decline in small business sales.

This article was written by Milla Bardony and Rosalyn Zhou.