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African-American women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in America, a new study reveals.
BY Lilly Workneh | PUBLICATION Huffington Post
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] 2015 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report released this week found that the number of women-owned businesses grew by 74 percent between 1997 and 2015. That’s 1.5 times the national average of business growth to be exact.[mc4wp_form id=”6042″][/three_fourth]
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Meanwhile, the growth in the number of businesses specifically owned by black women is outpacing that of all women-owned firms, the report says. The number of black women-owned businesses has grown by a whopping 322 percent since 1997. Today, black women own roughly 14 percent of all businesses in the country owned by women, which tallies to around 1.3 million businesses, according to the report.
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