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Cooking Up Business in Chicago

Many food entrepreneurs have the skills to succeed. This incubator gives them the resources to grow.

BY Brad McConnell (CEO, Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana)

04.10.2019
Employment and Jobs

FIELD Highlights from 2018

2018 was a year of broad work for FIELD, as we collaborated with leaders across the field to better understand and address the challenges that small business owners face.

BY Joyce Klein

01.14.2019
Small Business

We need transparency and fairness in small business lending

Predatory lending can shut down businesses, harm communities, and ruin lives. Let's guard entrepreneurs against predatory practices.

BY Joyce Klein

12.13.2018
Employment and Jobs

The 411 on the “Future of Work”

We don't have to abandon old ideals in the new economy. We can choose to make new jobs better.

BY Mark G. Popovich Maureen Conway Joyce Klein

03.17.2018
Small Business

Effective Policies for Entrepreneurship

The path to a more dynamic economy lies in opening opportunities for women and people of color.

BY Joyce Klein

02.22.2018
Employment and Jobs

FIELD's Strategies & Opportunities in 2018

Learn about our 2018 priorities and work as we continue to advance the potential of business ownership to address our nation's pressing challenges of economic inequality and financial security.

BY Joyce Klein

01.24.2018
Racial Equity

Combating the Racial Wealth Gap

Despite the difficulties that African American and Latino entrepreneurs face, there are ways that businesses and policymakers can lower the barriers.

BY Alison Decker

12.22.2016
Microenterprise

Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights

Each shuttered business represents not just the damaged dreams and credit of the individual owners, but lost jobs, vacant storefronts, and the loss of local goods and services as well. The Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights is a critical step to address problems in the small-business lending industry.

BY Joyce Klein Gwendy Donaker Brown

09.01.2015
Finance and Assets

Why We Need a Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights

As a critical building block of our economy — and its recovery from the great recession — small businesses must be protected from predatory lending and other practices which could cripple growth and slow the building of American wealth.

BY Gwendy Donaker Brown Joyce Klein

08.06.2015
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