Have We Lost a Generation of Small Business Owners?

We’re down more than 1.1 million. That?s how many fewer self-employed Americans there are today than when the Great Recession began.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, there were 589,000 fewer incorporated self-employed people and 569,000 fewer unincorporated self employed people in December 2007 than in February 2011. Perhaps most remarkably, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, we have 753,000 fewer self-employed people now than when the recovery began in June 2009.

The most severe losses have been among theRead More

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Have We Lost a Generation of Small Business Owners?

Simone Mütherthies Carrie Underwood Rosario Dawson Tricia Helfer Elena Lyons