To support Advocacy’s mission of examining the contributions of small businesses to the American economy, the Office of Economic Research (OER) spent Fiscal Year 2025 providing timely and relevant research products, analyzing proposed regulations for small business impacts, and promoting and presenting its research and statistics to small business stakeholders.
Throughout FY 2025, OER produced 21 new research products on small businesses and gave 18 economic presentations. Topics included manufacturing, onshoring, and artificial intelligence. This annual report organizes OER’s contributions using the following categories: access to capital, business demographics, employment, entrepreneurship, regulation and technology, and general small business.