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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Gene Marks

US small businesses are doing fine. Don’t believe me? Look at the numbers

A deserted downtown street with nice, two-story facades with canopies.
James Street in Eastwood, New York, on a quiet weekend morning in 2021. Photograph: Debra Millet/Alamy

Regardless of all the challenges they face, small businesses have been doing pretty well in this country across the board. Don’t believe me? Take a look at some of the latest numbers.

For more than 50 years, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) has published a monthly report of small-business economic trends, based on a random sample of the organization’s approximately 300,000 member firms. This survey is one of the longest and most consistent of any I follow, using the same questionnaire since 1973. So where do things stand?

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