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Entrepreneurship
Have you ever wanted to own your own business?
The number of self-employed people has increased in recent years and the number of entrepreneurs is going to continue to increase in coming years; a recent survey showed that 65% of 14 - to 19-year-olds are interested in starting their own businesses. In 2007, there were 27.2 million businesses in the United States, according to Office of Advocacy estimates. Census data show that there were 6.0 million firms with employees and 20.4 million without employees in 2005. Small firms with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.9 percent of the 27.2 million businesses (including both employers and nonem-ployers), as the most recent data show there were slightly more than 17,000 large businesses in 2005.