Start-Ups

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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Published on: Apr 23, 2018  Perhaps seizing on a tax bill favorable to business, as well as a stable economy and tight labor market, job seekers chose to start new businesses in the first quarter of the year at the highest

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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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By Rick Cobb Every month we publish the Challenger Layoff report. Most writers and producers of business information are familiar with our releases, and come to us regularly for comment on issues of employment. Invariably we’re asked the question: “Where

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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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Original article: http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/01/smallbusiness/entrepreneurs.moneymag/ "Last year 5.5% of jobless managers and executives launched a business, up 31% from 2012 and the highest level since 2009, says outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas. Confidence in the economy and access to individual health

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The percentage of former managers and executives starting their own business rose in 2013 to its highest level since the end of the recession, according to a new survey. The increase in entrepreneurial activity among displaced professionals belies recent trends

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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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