Economic Bulletin, December 2020
December 8, 2020The 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,…Small Business Pulse Survey
November 19, 2020The Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS) measures the effect of changing business conditions during the Coronavirus pandemic on our nation’s…The State of Financial Security 2020
November 9, 2020The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program has, for five years, tracked the challenges that face American households and learned from…Pandemic Pressures City Businesses
November 4, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted metropolitan areas, which have seen a higher rate of small business closures than non-metropolitan…Businesses Won’t Survive Without Additional Relief
October 20, 2020Small Business Majority’s latest survey reveals that the uncertainty of whether more help will arrive has left too many small…Big Ideas for Small Business
October 19, 2020Given current market conditions, it is clear that absent major federal interventions, whole swathes of the small-business sector will never…PPP Neglected the Neediest Small Businesses
October 16, 2020This report provides preliminary findings from the Select Subcommittee’s ongoing investigation of the implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)…Ownership and Opportunity
October 7, 2020In a new report from Urban Reform Institute edited by Joel Kotkin, J.H. Cullum Clark and Anne Snyder explore what happens when opportunity stalls.…Black Business Owners Hit Hard by Pandemic
August 31, 2020Black owners show biggest decline in business activity. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on business owners have varied across demographic…COVID’s Effect on Female-Owned Small Businesses
August 25, 2020Women-owned small businesses have been more heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic than male-owned small businesses, and they are less…
