Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans administered via private banks. In this paper, we use firm level data to document the demand and supply of PPP funds. Using an instrumental variables...

Small businesses play a significant role in economic development and growth in the United States and their vital importance in the American economy has prompted federal and state governments and private organizations to implement various programs to facilitate small business creation and...

Toward a history of the business of Black power / Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig -- Fighting for the soul of Black capitalism : struggles for Black economic development in postrebellion Rochester / Laura Warren Hill -- A McDonald's that reflects the soul of a people : Hough Area Development...