The Slow Death of American Entrepreneurship

Investors are fretting over the prospect of an another tech bubble, but according to the data, U.S. entrepreneurship is on the decline.

Americans started 27 percent fewer businesses in 2011 than they did five years earlier, according to data from the Census Bureau. As a share of all companies, startups have been declining for more than 30 years.

By Ben Casselman

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