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The Strong Job Market's Impact on Self-Employment

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This is just above the rate the overall inflation and well below the inflation rates for housing, healthcare and education.    We'll have more on this topic once we finish the analysis of the data from the 2018 MBO Partners State of Independence study. in the past year.

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Is Small Business Ownership the Great Equalizer?

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  We also looked at how education correlated with small business success.    The analysis was based on data from the Small Business Success Index  (SBSI) produced by the University of Maryland and Network Solutions.    The data is collected from firms with 2-99 employees.   

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More on the End of Men and Rise of Women

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.  The basics behind these are trends are a growing set of data indicating that men are falling behind women in a wide range of well being, educational, and employment measures.   Although not new (the trends have been discussed for many years), new information and analysis on these trends continues to surface.

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   While the PWC analysis focuses on 5 big industries, clusters can be large or small.    While the PWC analysis focuses on 5 big industries, clusters can be large or small. 

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Disruption and the Analyst Industry

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   It is a analyst service that provides research reports and analysis on emerging technology.  When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.

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Foreign Born in the US Workforce

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   In March, the BLS released their annual analysis of the number and characteristics of foreign born U.S. workers.   workers.    Here's a quick summary: 1.  million workers. 

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Lessons from a Failed Forecast

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  The qualitative analysis looks OK: " a futurist specializing in workplace issues, says pressure on baby boomers wanting to retire will be so great that they will be pulled back into the labor market. .  We don't often get a chance to see how trend forecasts turn out.    Obviously a big miss.

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