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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Hair salons are closing again. Some owners fear they won't survive financially

    Many businesses in California are required to shut down again, including beauty salons. Rosey Ibarra owns Social Salon Suites in Glendale. She rents out work stations to stylists and estheticians.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 14, 2020 • 6m Listen

    Many businesses in California are required to shut down again, including beauty salons. Rosey Ibarra owns Social Salon Suites in Glendale. She rents out work stations to stylists and estheticians. She says she and her husband exhausted every avenue to help keep their salon afloat until they reopened on May 31. Now their doors are closed again.

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      Rosey Ibarra

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    LAUSD goes all-online this fall. A parent and a teacher weigh in
    1. 0:00LAUSD will be all-online this fall. How a parent and a teacher are planning for it
    2. 10:13Hair salons are closing again. Some owners fear they won't survive financiallyYou’re reading this
    3. 17:11How US immigration policy spreads COVID-19 across the nation and world
    4. 27:36What a rabbit plague can teach humans about coronavirus
    5. 38:54The ups and downs of shooting a TV show now
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