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Claims about the rate of new business applications, startups, and firm entry, and their consequences for employment, dynamism, and productivity — including the post-2020 US surge in business applications. Excludes access-to-financing and small-business policy debates as such.

Post-pandemic labor market churn and business formation account for most of the recent US productivity acceleration

UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →US productivity acceleration Labor market churnimportance · notableImportance 0.45, from 0 to 1 · notable: a contested point in a live debate (also the default before judging). Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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