Posts Tagged ‘ Bureau of Labor Statistics ’

Jobs Data Shows Micro-Employer Pain

Aug 23rd, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Research

It is often quite difficult to figure out how the nation’s small businesses are doing at any given moment in time. You can talk to a few small business owners to ask them but that only gets you anecdotal evidence. You might turn to the added formality of the National Federation of Independent Business’s monthly [...]

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Ferreting Out The Facts About Nonemployers

Dec 15th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Research

Data is fairly intractable stuff. You can learn quite a lot from it but, in the end, it only tells you as much as it tells you. That means that a given data set can raise dozens of new questions even as it answers the first dozen questions the researcher asked. Case in point: the [...]

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