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Driving prosperity: How Black-owned businesses fueled recent economic growth

By Andre M. Perry, Andre Perry Andre M. Perry , Hannah Stephens, and Manann Donoghoe / June 18, 2025

In 2022, the most recent year of data available, Black-owned business added $212 billion in revenue to the economy, employed an average of eight people per firm, and paid over $61 billion in total salaries.

Latinas Who Will Own 2025: Trailblazers, Leaders, and Entrepreneurs Shaping the Future

By LatinUs Beauty / June 18, 2025

Latina leaders have been blazing trails and making their mark across the United States in many ways, and 2025 promises to be a year filled with even more remarkable accomplishments.

Female Founders And GenAI Are Rewriting Startup Culture In 2025

By Sindhya Valloppillil, / June 18, 2025

According to Gusto’s report, nearly half of new businesses (49%) were founded by women last year—a 69% increase from 2019 and the highest in the report’s five-year history. These gains reflect a broader transformation: AAPI, Black and Latinx entrepreneurs are also increasing their footprint, with startup rates up 17%, 67% and 25%, respectively, since 2019.

Advancing gender parity in entrepreneurship: strategies for a more equitable future

By Claudia Valladares / February 11, 2025

Gender parity in entrepreneurship is not just a moral imperative but a crucial driver of economic growth and innovation. Yet, despite significant progress in promoting gender equality globally, women remain underrepresented in entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Empowering Women in Entrepreneurship: Trends and Opportunities for Female Founders in 2025

By Parth Shah / February 11, 2025

Never has the entrepreneurial landscape been as diverse and dynamic as in 2025, and women are at the pulpit, leading it. Barriers burst as female founders disrupt industries and reshape the global business environment anew.

University of Washington Research Uncovers Inequities in Small Business Lending

By Suzanne Lee / December 19, 2024

A recent study from the Consulting and Business Development Center (CBDC) at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business has revealed stark inequities in small business lending practices in the United States.

How Women Can Use Their Financial Power to Create Change

By Amy Willard Cross / September 18, 2024

The U.S. political system is feeling women’s economic might. But it’s just a fraction of the Female Domestic Product (FDP), an entirely new concept, which if unleashed fully, could create real change.

For Black Beauty Entrepreneurs, It Costs More to Be the Boss

By Essence Gant / September 4, 2024

While systemic factors, like less access to funding and business education, have made it disproportionately more challenging for Black entrepreneurs than their non-Black peers, Black Americans still find ways to beat the seemingly impossible odds.

This highly educated, poorly paid workforce doesn’t qualify for student-debt relief. That could change soon.

By Jillian Berman / July 29, 2024

Many early-childhood educators are excluded from a loan-forgiveness program for public servants because they work for enterprises that are technically for-profit.

How Latinas’ educational and economic situation has changed in the last two decades

By Mohamad Moslimani and Sahana Mukherjee / May 15, 2024

Latinas have made considerable gains on several fronts in the last two decades. The share with a bachelor’s degree has roughly doubled since 2003, and their labor force participation rate and median hourly wage have both increased.

10 Transformative Black and Latina-Led Orgs Helping to Build an Equitable Economy

By Cristina Diaz-Borda / April 15, 2024

Economic disparities continue to grow every year—our economic system was not built to benefit everyone equally, and BIPOC communities bear the brunt of this injustice. At Common Future, we believe in an economy in which power is accessible to all, no matter their race and class.

Black Women are the Fastest-Growing Group of Entrepreneurs in the U.S.

By Morgan Smith / February 18, 2024

Black women make up less than 10% of the U.S. population, but they’ve emerged as the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs.