Data is fairly intractable stuff. You can learn quite a lot from it but, in the end, it only tells you as much as it tells you. That means that a given data set can raise dozens of new questions even as it answers the first dozen questions the researcher asked. Case in point: the [...]
It’s easy to complain about the lack of apparent interest in small businesses during this economic crisis. But the numbers provide one explanation of that curious silence.
When you get past the microbusiness employers and look at the rest of the small business firm size classes, their job creation and job loss numbers look fairly stable, either producing net job gains or breaking-even.
From the point of view of the folks in Washington, it probably looks like small businesses don’t really need any help.
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