Tampa, Fl (PRWEB) February 21, 2012
99% percent of all businesses in the United States are small enterprises, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This fact eludes most foreign travelers who expect our country to be dominated by large corporations. There is an entrepreneurial spirit in the U.S. that cannot be matched elsewhere. Not only do more Americans want to start up their own businesses, there is a much smaller social stigma associated with failure. That?s probably the reason payroll data from ADP shows most of the hiring, as of late, has come from small to medium sized businesses in the U.S. According to a Reuter?s survey the U.S. small business labor market remains stronger than their large predecessor?s. “Overall the small business labor market is not weak,” said Susan Woodward, the economist who developed the survey.
Large corporations have been shedding their employees, outsourcing tasks that were once the province of a salaried employee. An article by John Reh, from About.com said “for decades companies expanded their conglomerates by buying other companies. Initially these companies were related businesses, often suppliers. Soon the conglomerates began buying companies with no relation. Profit motives and the desire to be the biggest became sufficient motivation for acquisition. Ultimately, the conglomerates began to collapse under the weight of the acquired companies.”
As a result, those who lost their jobs didn?t just sit around. They figured, ?they can take matter into their own hands and start their own small business?. Now, as we are seeing the recent recession, it?s important to note that small and medium sized businesses are still just as important as they have ever been.
?What people fail to realize,? said Jovan Haye the CEO of a new startup called B2BeTrader, ?is that small businesses were also responsible for the huge economic boom of the early 1990s. Did you know that three quarters of the new jobs during that time period came from small businesses? When our economy makes a full recovery, I have no doubt in my mind that it will come from this dynamic sector of our economy.?
B2BeTrader is one of many such small businesses to rise from the ashes of the recent economic turmoil. The website provides a service to small businesses owners who are looking to buy, sell, trade or barter used equipment. ?We help people avoid unnecessary expenses on equipment so they can start up a business or simply keep one from going under,? said Jovan. ?We?re hoping that by cutting down some of these costs, small business will have the budget to hire more full time employees.?
Fall hiring was led by small and mid-sized businesses, which collectively added nearly 200,000 jobs in November, Andy Clark – Reuters. Large corporations haven?t contributed on nearly the same level. As a matter of fact, they have been slowly reducing their payroll for the last ten years. According to the ADP payroll company, in 2001, roughly 18.5% of U.S. payroll came from large corporations. This year, that number is 16%. It might not seem like such a big change, but consider the size of the U.S. economy. It is 311 million strong. A 2.5% difference amounts to 7.7 million jobs.
Will the large corporations ever consider increasing their hires? It still remains a possibility. In order for it to happen, it seems as if certain global trends would need to reverse themselves. The economy itself is becoming more global as more businesses find clever ways to outsource jobs that once required permanent salaried employees.
It would appear that the pioneer days are back. Saddled with adult responsibilities and a lack of easily obtainable prospects, the American people are buckling down and starting up their own businesses. One could say it?s a new era, but it really isn?t. It?s business as usual in an economy dominated by small to medium sized organizations.
America’s leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider’s account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq-a sobering and critical assessment of America’s effort to implant democracy In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the the American occupation authorities. Diamond had not been a supporter of the war in Iraq, but he felt that the task of building a viable democracy was a worthy goal now that Saddam Hussein’s regime had been overthrown. He also thought he could do some good by putting his academic expertise to work in the real world. So in January 2004 he went to Iraq, and the next three months proved to be more of an education than he bargained for.Diamond found himself part of one of the most audacious undertakings of our time. In Squandered Victory he shows how the American effort to establish democracy in Iraq was hampered not only by insurgents and terrorists but also by a long chain of miscalculations, missed opportunities, and acts of ideological blindness that helped assure that the transition to independence would be neither peaceful nor entirely democratic. He brings us inside the Green Zone, into a world where ideals were often trumped by power politics and where U.S. officials routinely issued edicts that later had to be squared (at great cost) with Iraqi realities. His provocative and vivid account makes clear that Iraq-and by extension, the United States-will spend many years climbing its way out of the hole that was dug during the fourteen months of the American occupation.
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