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:In light of this information deficit, growing concerns over the future of entrepreneurship have been amassing, as demonstrated at the Kauffman Foundation's 2016 State of Entrepreneurship [http://www.gvhlive.com/gvh-daily/2016/2/23/is-entrepreneurship-at-risk-in-the-2016-election Address]. While specific candidate platforms have not been announced in regards to entrepreneurship, three of the main policy areas discussed in the election; health care, economic regulation, and immigration, all directly relate to the prosperity of an American entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through an analysis of Clinton and Trump's statements in these three topic areas, a better understanding of the potential post-2016 futures of entrepreneurship may come to light.

:Economic regulation, in a similar vein to healthcare reform, has been purported as a [http://www.investors.com/liberal-study-finds-obamanomics-killed-the-american-entrepreneur/ cause] for the decline in small business. In a 2015 [http://centerforregulatorysolutions.org/fixing-the-nations-broken-regulatory-system/ report] from the Center for Regulatory Solutions Karen Kerrigan, the president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, suggests that a general streamlining and reduction the United States' economic regulations would help the growth of small business. The 2016 [http://www.kauffman.org/neg/section-7#acceleratinggrowthbycurbingregressiveregulation New Entrepreneurial Growth Agenda] published by the Kauffman Foundation, proposes that reform in small business regulation and an decrease in regressive "barrier" regulation is the key to small business growth, and that increased regulations on larger companies may be beneficial. Across both theories little empirical evidence exists to show the effects of regulation on small business and rather are generated through the studies and opinions of experts in the field.