{"id":2170,"date":"2022-04-06T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roundsconsulting.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2023-05-07T04:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T04:04:48","slug":"ktar-news-arizona-small-businesses-feeling-strain-of-inflation-supply-chain-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/2022\/04\/ktar-news-arizona-small-businesses-feeling-strain-of-inflation-supply-chain-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Small Businesses Feeling Strain of Inflation, Supply-Chain Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>KTAR News &#8211; Arizona Small Businesses Feeling Strain of Inflation, Supply-Chain Woes<\/h2>\n<p>Small businesses in Arizona are feeling the strain of sky-high inflation on the heels of pandemic-related struggles and it\u2019s testing the state\u2019s economy, a Valley economist said.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Rounds of Tempe-based Rounds Consulting Group said the people providing services to the consumers are feeling the pinch as much as their customers.<\/p>\n<p>About 1 million Arizonans work within about a half-million small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy is still out of balance from the COVID recession and it\u2019s going to take a little longer to get back to normal if we don\u2019t get inflation under control,\u201d Rounds told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 22px;\" href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/4992407\/arizona-small-businesses-feeling-strain-of-inflation-supply-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>READ FULL STORY<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTAR News &#8211; Arizona Small Businesses Feeling Strain of Inflation, Supply-Chain Woes Small businesses in Arizona are feeling the strain of sky-high inflation on the heels of pandemic-related struggles and it\u2019s testing the state\u2019s economy, a Valley economist said. Jim Rounds of Tempe-based Rounds Consulting Group said the people providing services to the consumers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239835,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/239835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}