Archives: Resources

  • December 20, 2020
    Lending to businesses in counties where a bank has no branches is highly sensitive to economic conditions. During the 2007…
  • December 17, 2020
    The Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics series (NES-D) provides information on the demographic characteristics of nonemployer businesses.
  • 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 24, 2020
    At Core Strategy Partners we were wondering how fellow small business owners are dealing with this new normal. We set…
  • 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…
  • 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…