There Are More Self-Employed Workers Than Ever—Here’s What That Means For the Economy

By Jasmine Browley ·Updated July 12, 2022

The Great Recession acted as a lightening rod for many corporate workers to strike out on their own. Now, the economy is seeing more solopreneurs in 2022 than in the last ten years.

Bloomberg reports that nearly 16.8 million people identified as self-employed in June.This is based on the latest data from the US Department of Labor’s jobs report that was released earlier

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