{"id":141,"date":"2012-07-23T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:45:26","slug":"small-business-is-good-for-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2012\/07\/small-business-is-good-for-your.html","title":{"rendered":"Small business is good for your community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>When small town entrepreneurs prosper, they help their community prosper. It&#8217;s one of my core beliefs, and it&#8217;s supported by some scholarly research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/3779560260\/\" title=\"Shop Inside by bjmccray, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shop Inside\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2667\/3779560260_cb3e724649_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a>Charles M. Tolbert, Baylor University, looked at the effects of small business on their local community. His<span>\u00a0research shows that more locally-oriented business establishments are associated statistically with:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>higher average income levels<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>less income inequality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>lower poverty levels<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>lower unemployment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>less juvenile delinquency<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>less crime<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Tolbert said that business owners are a local independent middle class, vested in the locality, embedded in the community, and acting as stakeholders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tolbert, Troy Blancahrd and Carson Menken, Louisiana State University, are adding research on the number of small businesses per person and health. More small businesses are associated with:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>lower levels of obesity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>lower levels of\u00a0<\/span><span>diabetes\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>lower rate of death<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>The number of larger businesses in a community was not associated with any change in health. They speculate that the entrepreneurial culture may be associated with better investment in health care facilities, recruitment of physicians, and a better social environment. Business owners may be more likely to back walkability improvements.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span>(Here&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com\/2012\/02\/counties-across-the-country-wi.html\/\">one of the news stories on this research<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s a basic reason for this: the best solutions always come from within. When local entrepreneurs prosper, they have more resources to work on implementing those solutions.<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Subscribe<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When small town entrepreneurs prosper, they help their community prosper. It&#8217;s one of my core beliefs, and it&#8217;s supported by some scholarly research. Charles M. Tolbert, Baylor University, looked at the effects of small business on their local community. His\u00a0research shows that more locally-oriented business establishments are associated statistically with: higher average income levels less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,3,8],"tags":[32],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}