After a single year of tepid growth in 2006, the population of U.S. firms without paid employees other than the business owner(s) came roaring back in 2007 with almost a million new firms, according to data released by the Census Bureau last week. Overall, nonemployer firms increased in number by almost 940,000, or 4.5% in [...]
The pace of growth in the population of U.S. businesses slowed significantly in 2006, according to new firm size data released by the SBA Office of Advocacy last week. After growing by approximately 4% in 2004 and 2005, the number of U.S. businesses increased by only 1.6% in 2006. And it appears from the data, [...]
The total number of U.S. firms grew by about 3.9% between 2004 and 2005, up from 25.4 million to 26.4 million, according to the latest firm size data released by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy last week. Nonemployers were up by 4.5% to 20.4 million. Microbusiness employers with fewer than five workers [...]
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