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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 15 million workers were self-employed in 2016. Self-employment can offer dislocated workers a path to financial security and economic mobility. In 2013, the Department of Labor funded the...

Web-based toolkit designed to help states develop Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) programs that will support small business and entrepreneurs.

Examines the effectiveness of the Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (Project GATE) in creating businesses and improving participants’ well-being during a 60-month observation period.

Exploration of best practices and current entrepreneurship operations and policies of the public workforce investment system, including information on how Workforce Investment Boards and One-Stop Career Centers currently provide support for...

Discusses ways in which states and localities can leverage traditional loan and financing programs that enhance job creation, provide access to local employment opportunities, or help support employment for residents, including those with...

Includes examples of entrepreneur and small business support programs ranging from regulatory improvement to intensive university partnerships in cities from small to large.

Examines short-term and long-term effects of entrepreneurship training programs in the United States using a large randomized experiment.

Examines how advancing female entrepreneurship can have a significant positive effect in growing the U.S. economy.

This resource outlines a menu of actionable strategies for local leaders for workforce-related recovery efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related recession.

Reports on a meeting of experts that considered the effect that student debt might have on entrepreneurship, including determining how to figure out if such a relationship exists and proposing policies that might facilitate entrepreneurship,...