Archives: Resources

  • 2021 Report on Employer Firms

    February 3, 2021
    The publication of this report seeks to document the toll the COVID-19 pandemic took on small businesses in 2020. At…
  • Loan Modifications for Small Biz in a Pandemic

    February 2, 2021
    The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program provided forgivable loans to help businesses survive the COVID-19 economic collapse. But that wasn’t…
  • Local Small Business Lending

    December 20, 2020
    Lending to businesses in counties where a bank has no branches is highly sensitive to economic conditions. During the 2007…
  • Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics

    December 17, 2020
    The Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics series (NES-D) provides information on the demographic characteristics of nonemployer businesses.
  • Economic Bulletin, December 2020

    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,…
  • Small Business Pulse Survey

    November 19, 2020
    The 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, 2020
    The 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, 2020
    The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted metropolitan areas, which have seen a higher rate of small business closures than non-metropolitan…
  • COVID-19 Small Business Insights

    October 24, 2020
    At Core Strategy Partners we were wondering how fellow small business owners are dealing with this new normal. We set…
  • SBA Frequently Asked Questions

    October 22, 2020
    Advocacy’s most requested publication, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business, gathers the most up-to-date statistics about American small businesses in one…