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Title: Three-in-Ten U.S. Jobs Are Held by the Self-Employed and the Workers They Hire Source: Pew Research Center

*Date:* Nov. 15, 2015

*Summary:* Self-employed Americans and the workers they hired accounted for 44 million jobs in 2014, or 30% of the national workforce, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data the U.S. Census Bureau recently made publicly available for the first time. https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://pewrsr.ch/1jAVVRr&text=30%25%20of%20U.S.%20jobs%20are%20held%20by%20the%20self-employed%20and%20the%20workers%20they%20hire The self-employed, 14.6 million in all, represented 10% of the nation’s 146 million workers, https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://pewrsr.ch/1jAVVRr&text=The%20self-employed%2C%2014.6%20million%20in%20all%2C%20represented%2010%25%20of%20the%20nation%E2%80%99s%20146%20million%20workers%20in%202014 and they in turn provided jobs for 29.4 million other workers. Link: pewrsr.ch/1X7sClw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library