Minority entrepreneurs find purchase in Inland Empire, but struggle to climb amidst pandemic impacts and state regulations

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Inland Empire. minority entrepreneurs outperformed the state and national average, making up roughly 44% of the total minority firms in the area.
Daniel RyerSpecial to the Valley NewsThe Inland Empire region has been surpassing state and national trends, particularly regarding underrepresented minority business owners, according to a report published last week. The State of Entrepreneurship Report was the result of a research team from the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship and School of Entrepreneurship at California State University San Bernardino with collaboration from the Institute for Applied Research.The report classifies the underrepresented minority group as containing those participants who self-identified as Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx or Native American/Native Indian even if they also identified as White, Pacific-Islander, or Other.Information from the latest US Census shows Hispanic-ow
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