Entrepreneurs

Highest Rate of Entrepreneurs Since Q1 2019 Published May 19, 2022 As workers across the country reconsidered their professional priorities amid record-high job openings and rising wages, the rate of job seekers who started their own businesses in the first

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Emboldened by favorable employment conditions and the continued availability of low-interest credit, the percentage of job seekers starting their own business increased to a four-year high in the final quarter of 2016. An average of 7.4 percent of job seekers

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An improving job market may be one of the reasons start-up activity among job seekers remained flat in the first half of 2015. The other reason could be a lack of the some of the key ingredients needed to increase

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  Improving economy not leading to surge in self-employment.   On average, just 5% of out-of-work managers and executives started their own business in 2014.   Government data reveals similar ambivalence over entrepreneurship.   Despite an improving economy and better

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Published on Jul 14, 2014  5.5% OF JOB SEEKERS STARTED A BUSINESS IN FIRST HALF OF 2014 An improving economy should lower the barriers to starting a business. However, it also means that more companies are hiring. Faced with the

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More Job Seekers Starting Own Firms Published AugUST 15, 2013 Start-up Activity Increases 33%; but Still Too Risky for Majority of Jobless The percentage of job seekers starting their own businesses increased by 33 percent in the first half of 2013,

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