The top three occupations of American women who are self-employed: Child care worker Hairdresser House cleaner Source: Bureau of Labor...

The percentage of Americans who are self-employed shrinks a bit more nearly every year. Last year was no exception. In 2013, only 6.5 percen...

Forty-two percent of the self-employed are at work on an average weekend day, according to the 2012 American Time Use Survey . This compares...

Despite all our talk about the entrepreneurial spirit, the percentage of Americans who are self-employed is lower than in most other develop...

Self-employment does not work in the United States. Thanks to our employment-based health insurance system and the difficulty and cost of ob...

The idea of starting a business is not all that appealing to the nation's college students. When students are asked to rate the attracti...

This isn't rocket science. In a nation that seems hell bent on making it difficult if not impossible for individuals to buy health insur...

Only 7 percent of American workers are self-employed, a figure that has been trending downward for decades. The new Federal Reserve Bank of ...

That is the finding of a new study by the Rand Corporation . By examining business ownership among workers with and without a spouse's h...

Two million Americans are trying to make a living as artists, according to a new report by the National Endowment for the Arts. Every decade...

So much for America's entrepreneurial spirit. Self-employment is disappearing in the United States as workers cry uncle in the health in...