small business and job growth

small business and job growth

fiction
edward w pritchard

It's counter intuitive. It's so difficult to prove. It's touted by politicians ad nausea. It can't be measured. No one knows many people that work in small business but everyone is supposed to start there for it's gospel that job growth comes from small business. Go to Africa and find an out of the way tribe and ask them about America and they will know small business is the engine of job growth in the American economy. We told them.

Small business depending on who is asked is any business with fewer than 500 employees to as few as five.

Business are closing, offices are vacant and jobs are difficult to find, ask anyone looking for work. Still everyone believes small business create jobs.

Who says so?

Any time a new State or local politician gets newly elected to office they fill the new small business growth office they created with friends, supporters and family. Then they say they are working with small businesses to create job growth.

That's who says so.