More on the 20 Million Self-Employed

The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship offers some interesting facts about the 20 million self-employed in the US recently reported by the Census Bureau:
– Each day, 2,356 Americans decide to go into business for themselves.
– Their companies account for 78% of all US businesses.
– They collectively obtain annual receipts of $951 billion.
– Georgia (up 7.6%) and Utah (up 7.2%) showed the highest annual increases. The national average increase was 4.4 percent.
– The fastest growing sector was Web search portals, where the number of self-employed jumped an astounding 41.2 percent in one year.