Reports

Reports

• NFIB Small Business Economic Trends

  The NFIB Research Foundation has collected Small Business Economic Trends data with quarterly surveys since 1974 and monthly surveys since 1986. Survey respondents are drawn from NFIB’s membership. The report is released on the second Tuesday of each month.

• Louisiana Survey: Small Businesses Need Healthcare Reform

• Louisiana Small Business Healthcare Stats

• Louisiana Small Business Healthcare Survey

  Small Business Majority’s first national online survey, conducted in 2006, showed that the cost of healthcare was the top concern of small business—above taxes, energy and other issues. The survey found that healthcare costs continue to be a major problem for small business owners.

• The Story of Stuff

  The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

• Footloose and Fancy Free: Top 30 US Walkable Urban Places

  Urban development is trending away from “drivable sub-urban development” and back to higher density “walkable urban places” as witnessed by the success of transit-oriented development, downtown revitalizations, and new urbanism. Read the summary of The Brookings Institution report by Christopher B. Leinberger.

• Economic Impact Analysis: Local Merchants vs. Chain Retailers

  Civic Economics conducted this analysis for Liveable Cities assessing the economic impact of local merchants relative to a chain merchant carrying comparable lines of goods in Austin. BookPeople, Waterloo Records, and Borders Books & Music, provide a case study. (2002)

• Trade Deficit in Food Safety

  Stay Local! participated in the New Orleans release of this July 2007 report by Public Citizen calling for stronger food import policies to ensure food safety. Bottom line: Shop local for your meat, produce, and seafood. See you at the Farmer’s Market!

• Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable

  Written to help community groups learn how CBAs work, and to explain the many benefits for which community groups can negotiate.

• Community Benefits Agreements: Ensuring that Urban Redevelopment Benefits Everyone

  CBAs are legally binding contracts between two private parties— developers and community-labor coalitions—to ensure that major development projects benefit local community residents.

• Which PILOTs Should Fly

  March 2007 report by the Bureau of Governmental Research on “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOTs) in New Orleans. A must-read for taxpayers in general and local business owners in particular.

• Why Not To Have Walmart In Boulder

• Local vs Chain in Maine

• BIBA TIF Report

  The author of this report from Boulder, CO states, “TIF holds the promise of a no-risk benefit to our sales tax revenue stream, but in point of fact, there are consequences…And there are alternatives to TIF.”

• Angelou Report On Santa Fe Independent Businesses

  Like New Orleans, Santa Fe’s economy is based largely on small locally owned businesses. And like New Orleans, Santa Fe’s economic health is on the line as national chains move in, bringing with them increasing competition for labor, higher rents, and usually a decrease in small business sales.

• Arts And Economic Development

  Learn how arts programs have served as components of high-impact economic development programs by assisting state and local government in multiple ways.

• New Rules Project Fact Sheet

  Looking for some facts about supporting local businesses? Check out this great fact sheet put together by the New Rules Project.