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Tracie Davis, Business Advisor at the North Central Indiana SBDC, will moderate a panel discussion on challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy: they create two-thirds of net new jobs and drive U.S. innovation and competitiveness.
According to the United States Census Bureau (Minority Business Ownership Differs by Sector, 2023), in 2020, there were a total of 5,775,258 U.S. firms in all sectors. They employed about 129,363,644 workers and had a total annual payroll of $7.3 trillion. Approximately 20% or 1.2 million of these employer businesses were owned by women and minorities. They employed about 9.9 million employees and had an annual payroll of $357.4 billion.
Tracie Davis, Business Advisor at the North Central Indiana Small Business Development Center (SBDC), will moderate a panel discussion on challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs. The event will take place Thursday, May 16, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. in the St. Joseph County Public Library Leighton Auditorium.