fedgazette Editor Ron Wirtz on Self-employment

Anecdotes abound regarding the direction of self-employment in today's economy, and the overall trend can be tricky to read. Recessions are brutal on existing and prospective self-employed individuals, but self-employment is also a common path for many jobless people looking for income. Available data, though spotty and not very timely, suggest that self-employment, variously defined, has declined since the onset of the recession.

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