Lawrence Mishel — Social Safety Information Confirm Same Onetime Pattern: Self-Employment Headcount Has Risen Only Economical Deportment On Remains Small

One indication of the increment of self-employment activeness has been the rising inwards the release of people filing Schedule C income together with self-employment net inwards their annual taxation filings. This increment has been cited to illustrate the escalation of self-employment together with to propose that Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures of self-employment are missing an of import phenomenon. Tracking headcounts of taxation filings, however, does non adequately reverberate trends inwards the economical touching of self-employment since, equally this analysis shows, almost of the increment is activeness for supplementary incomes....

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Economic Policy Institute
Social Security information confirm same sometime pattern: Self-employment headcount has risen simply economical touching remains small

Lawrence Mishel | distinguished swain at the Economic Policy Institute