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Apologies for last week. It’s a long story.

I’m particularly pleased with this week’s issue of the Microbusiness News Briefs. It deals, to a very large degree, with nonemployer firms.

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. Of course, we all knew that there’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.

Of course, we don’t have percentages or anything like that yet. It’ll take research and data and numbers to convince the economists and the policy makers. But … well, what do you think?

For more information:

American Human Development Project
SBA Office of Advocacy
National Association for the Self-Employed
Econosystems.com