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From Recovery to Resilience: How Opportunity Zones Can Help Accelerate Post-COVID Economic Resurgence
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to all economies. However, pandemics hit
underserved and vulnerable populations the hardest, and now the crisis will exacerbate their need for capital.
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capit
al among Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs and small-businesses owners.
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Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets Phase I Summary: Developing Action-Oriented Solutions to the Financing Challenges Facing Minority-Owned Small Businesses
Minority-owned small businesses play an important role in the nation’s economic health by driving j
ob creation, raising wages, and elevating better standards of living in communities throughout the United States.
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Turbocharging Opportunity Zones
Portions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 were designed to spur investment — and thus prosperity
— in distressed communities by providing incentives to unlock nearly $6 trillion in unrealized capital gains held by investors.
The mechanism
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Internal Revenue Service Request for Comment Regarding the Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulations
Dear Mr. Dinwiddie:
The Milken Institute (the Institute)1 appreciates the opportunity to comm
ent on the Internal Revenue Service’s request for comment regarding the proposed Opportunity Zones regulations.2
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