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Why sixteen years wasn’t long enough to meaningfully move the needle on small business lending reporting
A review of the final Dodd-Frank rule The promise of better data and greater accountability The small business lending market is extremely opaque. For example, decades of surveys and research has shown that minority-owned firms are approved for bank loans at significantly lower rates than their white-owned counterparts, are more likely to be discouraged from applying, and receive smaller loan amounts when they do obtain credit. America has never had a federal regulatory requ
Tracy Cole
5 days ago


How do Small Firms Experience Worker Churn? Early data from Small Firm Diaries USA
In our last blog post, we explored how employment numbers are recorded among U.S. firms at a single point each year—March 12—and how this approach fails to capture the volatility of employment among small firms with 1–20 workers. In today’s post, we use new data from the SFD USA sample to further illustrate this point.
Tracy Cole
Jan 26
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