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May 27, 2015Best Cities for Minorities: Gauging the Economics of Opportunity By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox for the Center for Opportunity…Build Market-Relevant Microlenders
March 2, 2015Joyce Klein of Aspen Institute’s FIELD program writes how impact investments can be used to scale microlending. The essay appears in…Investing on Economic Mobility
December 17, 2014The Bottom Line: Investing for Impact on Economic Mobility in the U.S. draws on the lessons from market-based approaches to…Student Debt Among Young Entrepreneurs
November 23, 2014A quick run down of the ways that student debt and entrepreneurship interact.Micro-Businesses: America’s Growth Engine
November 23, 2013This report examines growth trends for small and micro businesses in recent years, the sector’s need for liability protection to…Entrepreneurship in Rural America
September 10, 2013Community affairs offices at the Board and Reserve Banks engage in a wide variety of activities to help financial institutions,…Impact of Microenterprise on the Community
June 1, 2013Does microenterprise have an impact on the local economy? Drawing on nearly 25 years of experience and five years of…Entrepreneurial Assessment for the U.S. 2011
March 22, 2013During the summer of 2011, the United States participated in the 13th annual cycle of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)…2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report
March 1, 2013The GEM study is uniquely positioned to advance understanding about entrepreneurship and facilitate decisions and initiatives that promote these endeavours.…The Civic Economics of Retail
January 1, 2013A solid review of several foundational studies on the costs and benefits to cities of locally-owned businesses versus larger chain…