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==Future Outlook==
The deleterious effects of student debt on small business growth are apparent. Entrepreneurs are experiencing complications utilizing their personal debt capacity, and in some cases, persuaded to forgo business pursuits entirely. Student debt continues to rise at alarming rates, and the economic impacts are pervasive. An initiative targeting debt relief could have significant effects on the prosperity of small business in the United States.
Student Debt & Small Business Growth (view source)
Revision as of 14:32, 16 March 2016
, 14:32, 16 March 2016→Future Outlook
==Recent Trends==
An increasing debt burden may be preventing would-be entrepreneurs from exploring their business pursuits. A gallup poll conducted in October of 2015[http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/186179/student-loan-debt-major-barrier-entrepreneurship.aspx], found that as many as two million students cited loan debt as the principle reason they’d forgone or delayed plans to start a business. After the 2008 financial crisis, firm deaths had significantly exceeded firm births as calculated by the US census bureau. This phenomenon had gradually reversed itself in 2011, but has continued to miss the net average of 120,000 firm births experienced during the late 90's and early 2000's. Researchers speculate that fulfillment of a quarter of the entrepreneurial plans of the two million students’ pursuits would have been enough to return the 120,000 firm birth surplus.
