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Microbusinesses contribute significantly to both nation-wide economic activity and their owners’ household balance sheets, but many remain financially vulnerable, struggling to make ends meet and build wealth over time. Despite…
Small, locally owned businesses are the bedrock of thriving economies. They employ millions of people, they invest in their neighborhoods and cities, and they provide wealth-building opportunities for entrepreneurs. A…
Business out of the Box is a scalable public-private partnership model for poverty alleviation that supports small business development and entrepreneurship. It provides local, low-income entrepreneurs affordable vending spaces in…
Civic Economics is pleased to present the American Booksellers Association, Re>Think Local, and ABA members Half Moon Books and Oblong Books and Music with this local edition of the Indie…
CFED spent the past year in partnership with several microbusiness development organizations that are pioneering innovative approaches to delivering education, services and products to financially vulnerable entrepreneurs. We documented emerging…
Creating and owning a business has long been heralded as a path to financial success and economic mobility. In fact, business equity is the second largest source of household wealth…
Employment and Skills Strategies in Australia focuses on the role of local employment and training agencies in contributing to job creation and productivity. It looks at the role of Local…
Community groups wishing to get involved in economic development are successful when they carefully assess economic conditions and work on one carefully chosen pivot point. After initial successes and evidence…
David Neumark and Diego Grijalva of the University of California, Irvine examine state hiring credits and provide recommendations on the most effective ways credits should be structured in order to…
Sarah Treuhaft and Victor Rubin of PolicyLink explore the role that infusing economic inclusion into large-scale economic development and job creation at the national, state and regional policy levels can…
Sallie Glickman, Joseph Semsar and Samuel Williford at Fels Research and Consulting at the University of Pennsylvania explore innovative strategies that have the potential to alleviate job-skill mismatches, especially for…
Elaine L. Edgcomb and Tamra Thetford of FIELD at The Aspen Institute examine the growing role of microenterprise as a job development strategy and how state and local governments, among…
