TY - BOOK AU - John Dearie AU - Courtney Geduldig TI - Where the Jobs Are SN - 9781118573242 U1 - 330 Economics PY - 2013/// CY - United States of America PB - John Wiley&Sons,Inc. KW - Where the Jobs Are Jobs John Dearie N1 - Four years after the end of the Great Recession, 23 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce discouraged. Even worse, Washington policymakers seem out of ideas. Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy shows how America can restore its great job-creation machine. Recent research has demonstrated that virtually all net new job creation in the United States over the past thirty years has come from businesses less than a year old?true "start-ups." Start-up businesses create an average of three million new jobs each year, while existing businesses of any size or age shed a net average of about one million jobs annually. Unfortunately, the vital signs of America's job-creating entrepreneurial economy are flashing red alert. After remaining remarkably consistent for decades, the rate of new business formation has declined significant in recent years, and the number of new jobs created by new firms is also falling; Introduction America's Jobs Emergency Not Just Small Business... New On the Road With America's Job Creators Not Enough People With the Skills We Need Our Immigration Policies Are Insane Not All Good Ideas Get Funded Anymore Regulations Are Killing Us Tax Payments Can Be the Difference between Survival and Failure There's Too Much Uncertainty-and Failure ER -