Small Business
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Key insights from the 2025 Small Business Credit Survey
The 2025 Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS) shares insights from more than 6,500 small employer firms across the US about their business performance, challenges, and credit experiences.
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Byways tourism builds on the unique appeal of small towns
Route-based tourism transforms often-overlooked small towns into vacation destinations. Residents rediscover their community’s unique appeal and visitors bring economic opportunity along America’s byways.
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The financial frontier: Small business resilience in banking deserts
For small businesses in banking deserts, navigating capital access can feel like charting unfamiliar territory.
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Small business strategies for supporting employee child care needs
Small businesses employ nearly half of private-sector workers but often have limited resources to offer benefits like child care. This article examines the prevalence of employer-supported child care and the practical strategies small businesses employ to support working parents.
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The Quarterly Catch-up, Q4 2025
Check out the latest community development-related research, analyses, and articles from all 12 Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors. This post captures content published between October 1 and December 31, 2025, on topics affecting communities.
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The Quarterly Catch-up, Q3 2025
Check out the latest community development-related research, analyses, and articles from all 12 Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors. This post captures content published between July 1 and September 30, 2025, on topics affecting communities.
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Small-business owners: Contribute to enhancing our understanding of small businesses
Small-business owners help inform policy conversations and decision-making. Take the Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey.
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Native Entrepreneurship Dashboard
Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the health of an economy, driving economic growth and sparking innovation. The dashboard provides two key metrics for understanding the rate of entrepreneurship for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) workers relative to the U.S. workforce as a whole.
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Small Business Credit Survey
Fed Small Business features small business research and analysis by the 12 Reserve Banks of the Federal Reserve System, including the national Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS) and related data, reports, and partner opportunities.
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Paycheck Protection Program Lending in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District: Snapshots by State
These PPP Snapshots provide data profiles of where PPP loans went in each of the nine states that comprise the Twelfth Federal Reserve District: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.