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PPY 780: (Cook-Craig): Fall 2024 Research Starting Points

Resources to assist students with defining their policy issues

Sarah-How to Lessen the Barriers to Capital to Black-Owned Businesses

Post-Library Workshop Resources

Small Business Equity in Nevada, 2021: This fact sheet highlights data on minority and women-owned small businesses in Nevada in 2021, as originally reported by the Small Business Equity Tool. This tool examines the representation of Black, Asian, Latino, minority, and women-owned small businesses in the largest metropolitan areas and cities across the United States.

Las Vegas Greater Economic Alliance: The LVGEA Research Center has a economic data portal, research papers, an annual data book, and economic indicators.

Federal Reserve Community Development: The Federal Reserve developed a simulation to model how much gross domestic product (GDP) would increase every year by eliminating racial and/or gender gaps in earnings, hours work, educational attainment, and employment.

Neal: Policy process? Valuation methods; business executives–accountability–judicial; evaluation methods; decision making–judicial : no evaluation method; annual accountability; corporations; casinos; etc.

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