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What about entrepreneurs starting a business that is not yet profitable? Is that something the government doesn't care about or are the numbers just too small?
by palehose 11y ago
What about entrepreneurs starting a business that is not yet profitable? Is that something the government doesn't care about or are the numbers just too small?
- nostromo 11y agoThey're counted as employed.
- palehose 11y agoNot if there is no investment and no one is getting paid anything yet.
- nostromo 11y agoNot true. If you work for yourself and you're losing money and you get polled by the CPS, you would rightly report that you are self-employed, and you would be counted as working. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm It doesn't matter if there are investors or a profit.