Resource Category: Economics (General)

  • May 18, 2021
    The COVID-19 pandemic was an economic shock to small firms and the effects were not easily predictable. An unprecedented number…
  • March 2, 2021
    A new issue brief from the Office of Advocacy, “The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Small Businesses,” examines the…
  • February 3, 2021
    The publication of this report seeks to document the toll the COVID-19 pandemic took on small businesses in 2020. At…
  • December 8, 2020
    The Office of Advocacy’s Small Business Economic Bulletin for December examines how small businesses have been faring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall self-employment levels have been relatively steady,…
  • November 19, 2020
    The Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS) measures the effect of changing business conditions during the Coronavirus pandemic on our nation’s…
  • November 9, 2020
    The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program has, for five years, tracked the challenges that face American households and learned from…
  • November 4, 2020
    The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted metropolitan areas, which have seen a higher rate of small business closures than non-metropolitan…
  • October 20, 2020
    Small Business Majority’s latest survey reveals that the uncertainty of whether more help will arrive has left too many small…
  • October 19, 2020
    Given current market conditions, it is clear that absent major federal interventions, whole swathes of the small-business sector will never…
  • October 16, 2020
    This report provides preliminary findings from the Select Subcommittee’s ongoing investigation of the implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)…