ABSTRACT
Black-owned businesses comprise one of the City of Atlanta’s most important resources. According to a survey conducted by the author in 1995, these businesses currently generate 7,430 jobs in the city (which is 5.9 percent of the City’s workforce) and about 15,000 jobs in the metropolitan area. At their current growth rate, these businesses will employ 24,289 City workers by the year 2010. This employment capacity could accommodate 15 percent of the city’s 2010 black workforce, estimated to be 162,196.1 If future conditions simulate present conditions, 82 percent of the jobs created by blackowned businesses will go to blacks.
