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Black Entrepreneurship In The United States

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers believe that a part of this is due to poor financial literacy, with 82% of those African Americans surveyed lacking knowledge of things such as their credit score, or of the state agencies designed to help small businesses. Despite this, Black entrepreneurs make up just 3.5% of all business owners in the US.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Just getting the costs of regulation and compliance down would open world markets and create wealth, but that doesn’t have to mean changing local regulations. Anybody who has ever paid too much for a college transcript or tried to clear a shadow on their credit score can see how systems like this would be helpful in our daily lives.