In America in 2010, 27.9 million people were employed by small businesses.
Most of those workers are employed by small businesses that don't offer them health benefits or offer coverage that they can't afford.
In Italy, where 80 percent of workers are employed by small or medium-size firms, borrowing costs are around 6 percent, compared with 3.5 percent in Germany.
Of the 47 million uninsured people in this country, at least 20 million are employed by small businesses or work for themselves — a figure that has increased by an average of more than 500,000 a year since 2000.
Of the 10.4m people who work in manufacturing in Japan, 72% are employed by small to medium organisations while only 14% work in "large firms" with more than 1,000 employees.The big problem is the lower productivity among smaller firms.
And 4.7 million LinkedIn members are employed by small businesses.
For small businesses, the problem is the most acute, as three out of five of the working uninsured are employed by small companies.
Tens of millions of workers are employed by small employers with no HR department, and tens of millions more workers are employed as 1099 contractors with limited access to HR resources.
Besides, there are millions of others in the country who are employed by small traders like us and this larger population is dependent on us, so the government will have to listen to us, otherwise they will fall.
From the estimates obtained by Eq. (3) (third and fifth columns), we find that the probability of becoming unemployed from the employed state increases for people who are foreign citizens, who are on fixed-term contracts, who work in the industrial or construction sectors (which are more sensitive to business cycles), and who are employed by small firms.
