Chairman Rubio, Senator Cardin, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to...Strain, Michael R.The American Enterprise InstituteAEI Paper & Studies
Small businesses are a recognized proving ground for entrepreneurs, a vibrant source of innovation and competition, and an essential source of employment. They are suppliers and customers to the broader economy and deeply embedded in local communities. Many were vulnerable even before the cri...
minority-owned small businesses appear to be more concerned about the impact the pandemic will have on their own businesses, according to McKinsey’s US Small Business Pulse Survey: 58 percent of minority-owned small businesses are “extremely” or “very concerned”...
Experian built itsCOVID-19 Risk Index dashboardin Tableau to better assess the pandemic's impact on small businesses by geographic area. The index combines public health data with Experian's wide range of proprietary macroeconomic data. Experian analysts built the dashboard's first ...
Meanwhile, as in other cases of major economic shocks, the impact of the COVID crisis on the economy of China (and the world as a whole) has not been uniform. The Chinese Internet segment, which, along with the American one, had been the leader of the global digital economy before [3...
Small businesses especially are hard hit as they not only lose clients, they also may lose employees. Let’s go over some ways we small businesses can help one another. Look out for ways to offer your services or products to those who have to work from home. Can you do video or teleco...
an ecommerce and point of sale assistant for tens of thousands of small businesses reports that their wine and spirit store clients saw in-store traffic decline by 18 percent, but online sales increase by 10,000 percent, with a surge of 45 percent in the average purchase, resulting in an ...
And in business, the hardest-hit companies are carmakers, airlines, oil companies and small businesses already on the brink of bankruptcy. VULNERABLE ELDERLY At least 27,700 residents and workers have died from the novel coronavirus at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities for the el...
Despite the drop in their incomes last year, more gastroenterologists said that they felt fairly compensated in 2020 than indicated as such in 2019 (55% vs 52%). This year's higher figure, though, is on the low end of the scale: of the 29 specialties included, only four were lower, ...
This PPP extension is a lifeline for beleaguered American small businesses that are valiantly trying to contend with another surge of the virus and the associated business restrictions implemented by state and local governments. Although the legislation was passed too late in the year to impact empl...