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by palehose 3886 days ago
What about entrepreneurs starting a business that is not yet profitable? Is that something the government doesn't care about or are the numbers just too small?
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They're counted as employed.
Not if there is no investment and no one is getting paid anything yet.
Not true. If you work for yourself and you're losing money and you get polled by the CPS, you would rightly report that you are self-employed, and you would be counted as working.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

It doesn't matter if there are investors or a profit.