Black-owned businesses upbeat despite funding challenges
February 1, 2023
Forty-four percent of Black-owned businesses struggle to find funding and 78 percent say it is difficult to find customers who are not Black, according to a new study by Shopify. On a positive note, 68 percent of Black-owned businesses are optimistic about their growth prospects.
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