The Regulatory Flexibility Act 2016
January 19, 2017Fiscal year 2016 was a milestone in the Office of Advocacy’s history, signaling 40 years since the office’s founding. Today,…The Immigrant Entrepreneur
January 12, 2017The US SBA’s Office of Advocacy released “Explaining the Emergence of the Immigrant Entrepreneur.” This report found an explanation for…Immigrants in California
January 4, 2017PPIC published “Immigrants in California.” Our state is home to more than 10 million immigrants-about a quarter of the nation’s…
Expanding Small Loan Programs
January 4, 2017During 2016, Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) convened an Employer-Based Small Dollar Loan Knowledge Network (Knowledge Network) of nine diverse mission-driven…
Business Ownership And The Racial Wealth Gap
January 3, 2017African Americans & Latinos/as face high barriers to starting and growing businesses, including lower levels of financial assets. What steps…
Closing the Ever-Growing Gap
January 2, 2017CFED released “Administrative Actions to Close the Ever-Growing Gap.” This document describes seven administrative policy proposals President Trump could take…
2015 Nonemployer Firms Credit Survey
December 20, 2016Small nonemployer businesses—those with no employees other than the firms’ owners—make up nearly 80% of all U.S. firms in number.…
The Economics of The Independent Workforce
December 12, 2016This study, which was commissioned by Upwork, the world’s largest freelancing marketplace, places the IW in context by examining the…Exploring Online and Offline Informal Work
December 8, 2016The growing prevalence of alternative work arrangements has accelerated with the rapidly evolving digital platform transformations in local and global…
Philanthropy and the Future of Work
November 3, 2016In a new paper, Philanthropy and the Future of Work: Dimensions of Change and Opportunities for Action, we address the challenges…
