[prostoalex]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristie-arslan/five-big-myths-...

"large businesses only employ about 38 percent of the private sector workforce while small businesses employ 53 percent of the workforce. In fact, over 99 percent of employing organizations are small businesses and more than 95 percent of these businesses have fewer than 10 employees"

Affordable health care is pretty much the last major benefit that puts a large corporate employer at an advantage to a small business or self-employed status. With health exchanges and affordable (?) health care kicking in next year the parent assertion might be correct.

[tptacek]

I think this is likely to be a sleight of hand analysis on the HuffPo columnist's part. Firms with fewer than ten employees, which the column alludes to when talking about small businesses, make up just 5% of employer firms. Census doesn't define "small business", and SBA defines it in the context of specific verticals, so that a small manufacturer might have 500 employees while a small law firm might have far fewer. Whatever the case, firms with 500+ employees represent by far the largest segment of all employer firms, by just about 3x the number of employees of any other bracket.

(Caveat: I may be misreading some of this.)

[prostoalex]

Looks like the original stats (38% of US workforce employed by large businesses, 53% by small) were pulled from Wikipedia, which then refers to SBA.gov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#Em...