October 2026
Weather Losses Hit Accommodation and Food Service Almost Six Times as Often as Professional Services
Across 21 Census survey rounds, 17.6% of accommodation and food service businesses reported weather losses. Professional services: 3.1%.
Florida Has One in Ten U.S. Businesses With No Employees. It Added One in Five of the New Ones.
Florida holds 10.2% of America's no-employee businesses and added 19.9% of the 2024 increase. Add Texas and it is a third of all the growth.
Solo Businesses Shook Off 2020 in a Year. 2023 Took Six Times the Hit.
The number of sole proprietorship returns reporting a profit fell 91,950 in 2020 and was back above 2019 a year later. In 2023 it fell 555,991.
A Young Business Is About a Fifth Less Likely to Close in Any Given Year Than in the 1980s. The First Year Is Still the Hardest.
Employer firms aged one to five closed at 15.4% a year in 1983-87 and 12.2% in 2015-19. Every single year of age improved, the first year included.
Workplaces With Fewer Than 10 Staff Had Their Lowest Quit Rate in Ten Years in 2025. So Far, 2026 Is Lower Still.
At workplaces under 10 staff, the monthly quit rate fell to 1.77% in 2025, the lowest since at least 2016. January to August 2026 is lower again.
10.3% of Finance Employers Name Security as a Limit on Working From Home. In Health Care, It Outranks Managing Staff.
Census asked employers what limits remote work. Finance named security most, at 10.3%. In every trade, the firms saying it are bigger than average.