Banking on Black Enterprise

[Bates]...shows that minority employers offer the best hope for solving the inner-city and minority unemployment crises. Highly recommended for business and public policy collections. Booklist Timothy Bates' Banking on Black Enterprise is a crowning achievement, a definitive public policy manifesto for our cities. It should be required reading for every urban policy maker on Capitol Hill and across the nation. -- Franklin Lee, Chief Counsel, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund Booklist Tim Bates' superbly well-documented book on the new class of black businesses in America points the way. -- Bennett Harrison, Professor of Political Economy, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University Booklist Bankers, bank regulators, business executives, Congress, the executive branch, and state and local officials might do well to read this book. -- Edward D. Irons, Dean, Clark-Atlanta University School of Business Booklist The book provides an excellent statistical picture of the nature and evolution of black-owned business in America. CHOICE The book provides an excellent statistical picture of the nature and evolution of black-owned business in America. CHOICE [Bates]...shows that minority employers offer the best hope for solving the inner-city and minority unemployment crises. Highly recommended for business and public policy collections. Booklist Timothy Bates' Banking on Black Enterprise is a crowning achievement, a definitive public policy manifesto for our cities. It should be required reading for every urban policy maker on Capitol Hill and across the nation. -- Franklin Lee, Chief Counsel, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund Booklist Tim Bates' superbly well-documented book on the new class of black businesses in America points the way. -- Bennett Harrison, Professor of Political Economy, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University Booklist Bankers, bank regulators, business executives, Congress, the executive branch, and state and local officials might do well to read this book. -- Edward D. Irons, Dean, Clark-Atlanta University School of Business Booklist