MEMPHIS, Tenn. (May 1, 2020) – In 20 years, Fabiola Francis, owner of the catering company Simply Fabulous, has never had a layoff. But since the COVID-19 lockdown, she is down to just two part-time employees. “Because of the lockdown, we lost more than 80 percent of...

If you are a business owner, Governor Lee and his Economic Recovery Group need your input as they work to safely reopen Tennessee’s economy. They are eager to hear from all businesses about the challenges you are experiencing and how the state government can possibly...

This Brookings brief recaps the state of racial and gender equity within business ownership, the challenges that minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) faced during the depths of the Great Recession, and how the COVID-19 small business crisis could...