Small 业务es: the Driving Force of Our Economy
2021年9月23日
混合经济的目的
In the United States of America there exists a careful balance allowing freedom of economic advancement and capital use along with government controlled sectors such as the department of education, 法院系统, 医院, postal service and road systems (Investopedia). In theory this is to ensure that proper systems are in place to cr吃e a symbiotic environment between the government and the people in order to establish a thriving economy, assuming the government is for the people. Fostering an environment for 小型企业es to thrive is essential to keeping this balance.
Small businesses are defined by the Small 业务 Administration (SBA) as a privately owned business with fewer than 500 employees.
By this definition there are 30.2 million 小型企业es in the United States (商会). According to the 商会, this makes up 99% of businesses in the U.S. 占了47.5%的劳动力(Oberlo). However, if you look at businesses with fewer than 100 employees they make up 98.2% of 小型企业es in America, which is still quite significant. Overall, 小型企业es provide 58.9 million jobs to people in the United States (Oberlo) and cr吃es about 2 million new jobs each year (商会).
What are the Benefits of Small 业务es?
Small businesses are the driving force in our mixed economy structure. They serve to develop not only our economic, but our socioeconomic standing as well by cr吃ing jobs, 刺激创新, along with increasing opportunity for minorities (探索业务). 因此, 小型企业es promote the American dream by establishing opportunity for people to achieve financial stability and independence. While big businesses and investors promote larger amounts of growth in a particular area, it is the balance of each that cr吃es a booming economy (Investopedia).
Driving Factors for Entrepreneurs to Start Their Own Small 业务
现在, 在新冠肺炎时代, there has been a major shift in the workforce and many are choosing to launch their own start-up business. For many this has been dictated by their circumstances. 日程安排, 照顾孩子的可用性, financial standing have all been disrupted as we leave behind the old normal and now forge ahead into the next normal. Others are looking to become their own boss and to have more control over such decisions. 例如, whether or not to receive the vaccination being administered under emergency circumstances, even though currently it still has unknown long-term side effects. With 医院 and other private businesses pressuring their employees to do so, we may see an even larger surge of 小型企业es registering with the Small 业务 Administration.
The Surge of Applicants for New Start-Ups
In 2019, 3.5 million 小型企业 were started, this jumped to 4.35 million in 2020, with an average of 1.3 million new businesses starting up per quarter. 到目前为止，我们已经看到了1.37 小型企业es launched in Q1 of 2021 and 1.第二季第44(奥伯罗). The decline in numbers reported for the month of August has led the Small 业务 Administration to believe this volume of new applications will begin to regress and does not think it very likely to continue at such high volumes as reported over the past 6 quarters from Q1 of 2020 to Q2 of 2021.
As a result of the uncertainty caused by the stay at home mandate and the shutting down of business sectors deemed non-essential, it provided people the time to finally put together the game plan for their own start up.
Owning one’s own business is not easy, and yet independent business owners say they have a a higher amount of job satisfaction which is likely due to the flexibility allowed in ones schedule along with the security it provides in these unprecedented times (Oberlo).
Owning and running a 小型企业 is challenging and not all 小型企业es are able to make it past the first 3-5 years. So when you think about where you will shop, 吃, 或者晚上出去玩, think of how you can support a 小型企业 in your area.
If you are interested in starting your own 小型企业 there is a guide on the U.S. government page for Small 业务 Administration to help people plan and detail out which steps to take in order to start your own 小型企业. 你也可以联系 小型企业 中心寻求帮助.
来源
探索业务 (在线教科书)