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The authors also conducted structured interviews with PPP loan recipients and found that those businesses that received smaller-reported loan amounts had more difficulties and less knowledge about the loan application process than larger loan recipients. They compare PPP lending to existing residential and small business lending patterns to assess the disadvantage of Black and Latinx neighborhoods in receiving PPP loans. Keywords: inclusive economic development; paycheck protection program; PPP; inclusivity EN inclusive economic development paycheck protection program PPP inclusivity 207 210 4 09/20/23 20230801 NES 230801 In 2019, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research partnered to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms and contexts that promote inclusive economic growth and development. During the first two phases - when approximately 60% of loans and 70% of loan dollars were allocated - majority Black and Latinx neighborhoods received disproportionately fewer PPP loans and dollars. [Extracted from the article]

The Richard Florida-Todd Gabe and Nik Theodore papers, while illustrating negative features of current regional economic development and labor market patterns, also point toward institutional innovations that could make economic and workforce development more inclusive. Theodore shows how day-labor worker centers contribute to inclusive economic development in the contexts of disaster recovery and pandemic response, in which the role of worker centers has not previously been studied. Keywords: inclusive economic development; Paycheck Protection Program; PPP; inclusivity EN inclusive economic development Paycheck Protection Program PPP inclusivity 299 301 3 10/20/23 20231101 NES 231101 This issue of I Economic Development Quarterly i continues the special issue focusing on inclusive economic development. [Extracted from the article]