I’m late in seeing these data, but the Census Bureau recently released new numbers verifying the self-employment boom in America. In 2005, the last year for which stats are available, the number of ‘non-employer’ businesses (businesses without paid employees) topped a record 20 million. “A daily average of 2,356 people went into business for themselves,” the Bureau reports.

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  1. Build A Solo Practice, LLC says:
    July 22, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    “Lone Wolves” – Single Person Businesses Grow past 20 Million

    Thanks to Dan Pink by way of Stephanie West Allen, we learn the following:A daily average of 2,356 people went into business for themselves as the nation’s number of businesses without a payroll reached 20.4 million in 2005, the U.S.