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Employment and Jobs

How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration

Job quality is vital not only for workers, but also for small businesses and communities. Yet too many jobs today miss the mark on one of the key characteristics of a good job: providing enough pay to live on. Only 56% of full-time workers in the United States make enough money to cover their families basic needs.

Event

2 weeks ago
Employment and Jobs

Shared Success Midpoint Evaluation Overview

One third of businesses reported adding employee benefits since baseline. The main employee benefits offered at midline are PTO (69%), paid sick leave (56%), health insurance (54%), and professional development opportunities (50%). These have both financial and opportunity costs to firms.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

04.21.2025
Small Business

Driving Innovation in Small Business Lending

During this event, we heard perspectives from lenders, investors, policymakers, small business owners, and advocates about how to build a financing market that truly works for small businesses.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Video

03.27.2025
Small Business

A Conversation with Michael Barr

During this event, we heard perspectives from lenders, investors, policymakers, small business owners, and advocates about how to build a financing market that truly works for small businesses.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Video

03.27.2025
Small Business

Ensuring that Innovation Benefits Small Businesses: The Role of Guardrails

During this event, we heard perspectives from lenders, investors, policymakers, small business owners, and advocates about how to build a financing market that truly works for small businesses.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Video

03.27.2025
Employment and Jobs

Prioritizing Small and Mid-Sized Businesses: Early Lessons for Skills and Credentials Leaders

Evidence of skills proficiency, supported in ways that are fraud-proof and trustworthy, are foundational to the long-term success and scaling of Skills First talent management practices. And validated skills are what employers want and need.

BY Haley Glover

Publication

02.25.2025
Employment and Jobs

Upskilling for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

The question is not “Should SMBs invest in upskilling?” They must for their own continued competitiveness, for the good of their employees, and for the good of our society and economy. The question is “How should SMBs invest in upskilling?”

BY Chelsea Miller

Publication

02.18.2025
Employment and Jobs

Building Shared Success: A Guide to Small Business Job Quality Advising for CDFIs

This tool offers guidance for business advisors at CDFIs on how to have conversations with small business owners on job quality improvements.

BY Bryn Morgan & 2 more

Publication

11.15.2024
Employment and Jobs

Latina Entrepreneurs Show the Power of a Firm-Centric Approach to Procurement

Latina entrepreneurs must overcome significant barriers to gain visibility in procurement departments.

Blog Post

03.30.2023
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