In recent years, high-profile Silicon Valley firms have engineered billion-dollar IPOs through developing online and app-based platforms that connect service providers and sellers with customers and process their payments (the “online platform economy”). Today, millions of Americans earn...

In 1972, the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking the total number of women-owned firms and found women owned only 4.6 percent of all U.S. firms. Since then, the total number of women-owned firms (defined as 51 percent or more as owned by women) has grown exponentially to represent 42 percent of...

The last time Congress enacted substantial tax reform — in 1986 — only 8.2% of American households owned personal computers. Today, more than 87% of American adults own a mobile phone and on-demand platforms like Uber, Etsy, Lyft, Airbnb, HomeAway, Amazon, and TaskRabbit have become...