Sifan Liu

Bartender Nicole DeVito restocks the outdoor bar at Farmers Fishers Bakers, a restaurant on the Georgetown Waterfront in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. After shifting metrics for reopening in recent weeks, today the District of Columbia began the first stage of economic reopening allowing restaurants and other business to operate in limited capacity despite the COVID-19 outbreak. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

New data shows small businesses in communities of color had unequal access to federal COVID-19 relief

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Restaurant workers

‘Back to work in the flames’: The hospitality sector in a pandemic

Tracy Hadden Loh, Annelies Goger, and Sifan Liu

Thursday, August 20, 2020

A woman with a face mask practices social distancing while waiting for food donations outside a food bank, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Gypsum, Colorado, U.S., April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Across metro areas, COVID-19 relief loans are helping some places more than others

Joseph Parilla and Sifan Liu

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

BAL HARBOUR, FL - MAY 23: Independent book store Books&Books finally re-open one of their store at the Bal Harbour shop after two month closing due amid of reducing the out spread of Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Sign posted all over the store urge customer to wear mask and staff provided hand sanitizer upon enter the store to customer on May 23, 2020 in Bal Harbour, Florida. Miami-Dade County, Florida start Phase one re-opening after two month of stay at home order was place by (R) FL Gov. Ron DeSanti (Photo by JL/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Small businesses have received uneven relief from COVID-19 federal aid

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

Friday, May 29, 2020

Staff of Juana's Latin Sports Bar & Grill waiting for customer to arrived for re-opens for indoor dining on May 18, 2020 in Miramar, Florida. The six year old family own restaurant with 30 plus employee re-opened approximately two months after shutting it's doors due to the coronavirus pandemic and lost over $300,000 of revenue during that time. Juana's Latin Sports Bar & Grill just received a PPP loan approval on May 6 and looking for most of they employee to come back to work. as Broward County starts the first phase of the states coronavirus pandemic re-opening plan, which includes openings with certain restrictions of businesses like barber shops, hair salon, restaurants and retail stores. (Photo by JL/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

In many of the hardest-hit states, COVID-19 small business relief is lagging

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

May 21, 2020

Economy

How COVID-19 will change the nation’s long-term economic trends, according to Brookings Metro scholars

Mark Muro, Tracy Hadden Loh, Martha Ross, Jenny Schuetz, Annelies Goger, Nicole Bateman, William H. Frey, Joseph Parilla, Sifan Liu, and Adie Tomer

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Workers make face masks at the Portland Garment Factory in Portland, Ore., on April 1, 2020. The company's owner, Britt Howard, made the decision to shift the focus of the business to fill the demand for personal protective equipment, and the studio is now producing 5,000 face masks per week with eight full-time employees. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Businesses owned by women and minorities have grown. Will COVID-19 undo that?

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

An artist works on a boarded up River Pig Saloon in Portland, Ore., on March 24, 2020. Yesterday Governor Kate Brown issued a statewide executive order to stay home except for essential needs as more extreme social distancing measures aim to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and flatten the curve. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How local leaders can stave off a small business collapse from COVID-19

Joseph Parilla, Sifan Liu, and Brad Whitehead

Friday, April 3, 2020

Quieter than usual scenes pictured in downtown Portland, Ore., on March 19, 2020, the first day of spring. Throughout the state gatherings are now limited to no more than 25 people for at least four weeks and bars and restaurants will be providing takeout services only as social distancing measures aim to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and flatten the curve. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

What the Great Recession can tell us about the COVID-19 small business crisis

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

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How startups help cities measure their economic development frontier

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

October 24, 2019