Business Closings In 2009
Random Samplings, the blog of the U.S. Census Bureau, notes that, due in large part to the recession, the U.S. lost 168,000 business establishments and 6 million employees between 2008 and 2009. Additionally, as the chart shows, the number of business establishments fell in 16 of 19 major industrial sectors with the greatest decline occurring in construction.
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