NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

How speeding up payments to small businesses creates jobs

  • Written by Jean-Noel Barrot, Assistant Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

Operating a small business, the backbone of the U.S. economy, has always been tough.

But they’ve also been disproportionately hurt by the Great Recession, losing 40 percent more jobs than the rest of the private sector combined.

Interestingly, as my research with Harvard’s Ramana Nanda shows there’s a fairly straightforward way...

Read more: How speeding up payments to small businesses creates jobs

More Articles ...

  1. Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites
  2. Static electricity's tiny sparks
  3. Is Google's eagerness to answer questions promoting more falsehood online?
  4. Does nonpartisan journalism have a future?
  5. Want to challenge Trump on immigration? Try a strategy from the antebellum South
  6. How ride-hailing apps like Uber continue cab industry's history of racial discrimination
  7. Why is it so hard to close the racial health gap in the US?
  8. Five reasons why the North Dakota pipeline fight will continue in 2017
  9. The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
  10. Attackers can make it impossible to dial 911
  11. Is hunting moral? A philosopher unpacks the question
  12. New study: Did America's growing diversity make voters more xenophobic?
  13. Dengue virus antibodies may worsen a Zika infection
  14. The factories of the past are turning into the data centers of the future
  15. How does a US president settle on his science policy?
  16. How the Berlin Christmas market terror attack affects Chancellor Merkel and Europe
  17. Momentum grows for ocean preserves. How well do they work?
  18. Does a healthy diet have to come at a hefty price?
  19. Sexuality in the time of Trump
  20. Trump's immigration policies will pick up where Obama's left off
  21. Will Obama's offshore drilling ban be Trumped?
  22. Can't keep your New Year's resolutions - try being kind to yourself
  23. Finding trust and understanding in autonomous technologies
  24. How to get ready for the economic recession coming in 2017
  25. As Republicans ready to dismantle ACA, insurers likely to bolt
  26. 'The 120 Days of Sodom' – counterculture classic or porn war pariah?
  27. Thirteen ways to keep free radicals away, and why it's so important
  28. Single-sex schools: Could they harm your child?
  29. Why academics consulting with industry on health care may be an idea whose time has come
  30. More online shopping means more delivery trucks. Are cities ready?
  31. Assassination of the Russian ambassador a big loss for Turkey
  32. Does being wealthy make you more charitable?
  33. Why you'd have to eat 64 cans of green beans per day - every day - to get too much BPA
  34. Obstacle avoidance: The challenge for drone package delivery
  35. Tell a different story about Santa this holiday season
  36. Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America
  37. Why you can’t fry eggs (or testicles) with a cellphone
  38. Could Hulu and Google upend the TV industry in 2017?
  39. Trump is not a European-style populist. That’s our problem
  40. How ancient wisdom can help managers give their employees better feedback
  41. A sacred light in the darkness: Winter solstice illuminations at Spanish missions
  42. High rates of medical student depression: What do they say about our health system?
  43. Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R's for the internet age
  44. Brick-and-mortar retailers should nix deep discounts to make most of jittery shopping season
  45. Policy uncertainty discourages innovation and hurts the environment
  46. Obama administration's big science and tech innovation: Socially engaged policy
  47. Another reason to exercise every day during the holidays
  48. Can legal activist Scott Pruitt undo clean air and water protections as head of EPA?
  49. Why children believe (or not) that Santa Claus exists
  50. How to know when holiday drinking is hurting your brain