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PPP Lending Disparities by Race in 2020 and 2021
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was widely criticized, for favoring white-owned businesses over Minority Business Enterprises. (MBE) In the study PPP loans were consolidated using the program Stata using data…
Read MorePPP (Paycheck Protection Program) Disparities by Gender in North Carolina by Year
In order to determine whether Paycheck Protection loans in the North Carolina, suffered the same disparities between gender and race, as we found in our previous articles for 2020 PPP…
Read MoreGriffin & Strong Find Significant Disparities in N.C. Procurement: Non-Partisan Small Business Reserve Program is one of the Best Remedies for N.C.
The NC Department of Administration’s Historically Underutilized Business Office recently released a disparity study, researched by Griffin & Strong P.C., on the availability and utilization of minority and women business…
Read MoreEducation and Race in North Carolina and the U.S.
Win for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
North Carolina House Representative Alma Adams has won an important victory for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by incorporating her bill, the HBCU Capital Finance Debt Relief Act, in…
Read MoreDisparities in PPP Lending by Gender
As of January 31, 2021, the Treasury Department doled out over 6 million loans totaling nearly 600 billion dollars with an average loan amount of $98,560. The initial rollout of the program has been criticized for favoring larger businesses seeking higher loan amounts and effectively shutting out smaller minority and women owned businesses most likely to shutter their doors without immediate financial relief.
Read MoreDisparities in PPP Lending by Race
PPP loan data on race reveals disparities in the number of loans for the first time period PPP loans were given and amount of loans given to minority and non-minority owned businesses for both time periods.
Read MoreRedlining Reparations: Evanston Illinois takes a Lead in Addressing the Race Wealth Gap
Evanston, IL will be the first city in the United States to make good on their promise to offer a reparations program to its black residents that have suffered economic devastation from discriminatory lending practice.
Read MoreMedicaid Expansion Could Have Prevented 745 COVID-19 Deaths in North Carolina
Studies show that people without insurance report delaying or simply foregoing necessary medical treatment due to cost. We hypothesized that counties with a population that have higher percentages of uninsured would have higher rates of COVID-19 deaths when controlling for per capita COVID case rates.
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