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		<title>Self-Employment As Middle Class Lifejacket</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are any number of things you can say about nonemployers and I've probably said most of them. But here's something I found out recently, thanks to a presentation by Kristen Lewis of the American Human Development Project.

I learned that, besides all the other things nonemployers do or could do, they help middle class families get a little less squeezed.]]></description>
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<p>Apologies for last week. It&#8217;s a long story.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m particularly pleased with this week&#8217;s issue of the Microbusiness News Briefs. It deals, to a very large degree, with nonemployer firms.</p>
<p>There are any number of things you can say about nonemployers and I&#8217;ve probably said most of them. But here&#8217;s something I found out recently, thanks to a presentation by Kristen Lewis of the American Human Development Project.</p>
<p>I learned that, besides all the other things nonemployers do or could do, they help middle class families get a little less squeezed. Of course, we all knew that there&#8217;s quite a lot of income patching among nonemployer business owners but a lot of that income patching is taking place at the middle income level, now lower down the socio-economic totem pole.</p>
<p>Of course, we don&#8217;t have percentages or anything like that yet. It&#8217;ll take research and data and numbers to convince the economists and the policy makers. But &#8230; well, what do you think?</p>
<p><strong>For more information:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.measureofamerica.org" target="_blank">American Human Development Project</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sba.gov/advo/" target="_blank">SBA Office of Advocacy</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nase.org" target="_blank">National Association for the Self-Employed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.econosystems.com" target="_blank">Econosystems.com</a></p>
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