The economic crisis is forcing Caribbean small businesses to cut staff and inventory, work longer hours, and find collective ways to overcome what is expected to be one of the worst periods for business in American history.

A stroll down one main avenue in Brooklyn finds struggling entrepreneurs who are undoubtedly among Caribbean Americans in the U.S. facing economic hard times. `It`s a struggle,` said Frantz Moise, a retailer originally from Haiti. `I know the stuff that sells but I can`t bring them in as I would like to. If revenues not coming in you can`t buy stuff.`

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