{"id":64586,"date":"2015-11-13T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64586"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:20:17","slug":"women-owned-businesses-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64586","title":{"rendered":"Women-Owned Businesses Flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-62199\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90-300x90.jpg?resize=300%2C90\" alt=\"Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90.jpg?resize=300%2C90&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90.jpg?resize=150%2C45&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90.jpg?resize=400%2C120&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90.jpg?w=667&amp;ssl=1 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Monica Braun, Center for Rural Affairs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Nov. 2015) A National Women\u2019s Business Council analysis of U.S. Census data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners shows significant growth since 2007. As of 2012, there are 9.9 million women-owned businesses \u2013 a 27.5 percent rise.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis also showed that Women-owned businesses generated 1.6 trillion in total receipts, which is up from 1.2 trillion in 2007; an increase of 35 percent.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, male-owned businesses saw an increase of 33 percent, while sole proprietorships account for 89.4 percent of businesses owned by women. Employee hiring has also increased by 19.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>African-American women own more than 1.5 million businesses across the U.S., a 67.5 percent jump from 2007. There are 1.48 million Hispanic women-owned businesses in the U.S, an increase of 87.31 percent\u00a0since 2007.\u00a0 And 754,874 Asian American women own businesses, up 44.3 percent from 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Another area of tremendous growth was in veteran women-owned businesses, which increased by 206 percent from 2007 to a total of 384,548 businesses nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 Women\u2019s Business Centers across the country offer counseling, business training and other services to women in business in all 50 states.<br \/>\nVisit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfra.org\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0www.cfra.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Monica Braun, Center for Rural Affairs (Nov. 2015) A National Women\u2019s Business Council analysis of U.S. Census data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners shows significant growth since 2007. As of 2012, there are 9.9 million women-owned businesses \u2013 a 27.5 percent rise. The analysis also showed that Women-owned businesses generated 1.6 trillion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-gNI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Center-for-Rural-Affairs-300x90.jpg?fit=667%2C200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}