City leaders are clamping down on small entrepreneurs to protect the profits of their wealthy business allies.
A street vendor sells tamales at Junction Boulevard in the Queens Borough of New York City, on November 27, 2019.Married business partners Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien immigrated from Haiti and settled in Parksley, Virginia, in 2005. They followed the law when they opened a brick-and-mortar store and expanded with the town’s first food truck in June 2023.
“When I received the letter from the town attorney, I got very sad because I was trying to do something good,” Benoir said in French Creole. “Even the people who were coming and buying from my business — some of them were hungry because they did not know how to cook, so they were buying food from me. When I was unable to serve them, some of them even cried.”
Most mobile business owners lack access to backroom dealmaking. They do not have time to get involved in local politics. They work too much. Our research shows that full-time sidewalk vendors put in, on average, more than 11 hours a day, five-and-a-half days a week. Three out of four part-time vendors hold a second job.
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