WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden announced changes Monday to target more federal pandemic assistance to the nation’s smallest businesses and ventures owned by women and people of color. Biden says a ...

"Anytime you're talking about business loans being denied, it makes for a real challenge because there's not much that's more important to the success of a business than being able to land funding," ...

“We want to make sure our historically underserved businesses are benefitting from the financial assistance programs that are so urgently needed right now,” Mayor Romero said. Local business owners ...

The Small Business Administration is trying to level the playing field for underserved business owners, who were largely shut out during the early days of the Paycheck Protection Program’s previous ...

A study released in partnership with Bank of America revealed that most minority and women-owned businesses anticipate a ...

The federal Small Business Administration backed a record amount of lending in its just-concluded fiscal year, more than $30 billion nationwide. In New Jersey, the bulk of the increase came in loans ...

A new study says that black and Hispanic homebuyers were 2.4 times more likely to receive subprime loans than their white counterparts, even though they qualified for less risky loans. Because of ...

A study by the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business released Tuesday has uncovered significant disparities in lending practices affecting businesses owned by people of color and women.

The Winston-Salem Foundation is helping a nonprofit lender expand its reach into Forsyth County with a $100,000 investment into Piedmont Business Capital for loans to minority-owned businesses here.