Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups

For decades, the United States has been experiencing a shocking decline in the number of new business start-ups-and it has gotten worse since the Great Recession. While new business formation in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston is booming, entrepreneurship in most of the country-particularly rural regions-is declining. Things are even worse for women and people of color. This is of paramount importance to the United States because start-ups account for all new net-job growth, champion i...