Keeping Up With the Trend: Issues Affecting Home-Based Business Owners (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a.m., in room Sr-428A, Russell Senate Office Building, the Honorable Christopher. Bond, Chairman of the Committee, presiding.

Present: Senators Bond, Pressler, Burns, Snowe, Bumpers, and Wellstone.

Opening Statement Of The Honorable Christopher's. Bond, Chairman, Committee On Small Business, And A United States Senator From Missouri

Chairman Bond. The United States Senate Committee on Small Business is called to order. Good morning, and welcome to Washington.

I very much appreciate your joining us this morning. We had to delay the opening of this hearing because of other hearings going on. Unfortunately, my colleagues on this Committee are all in other hearings right now. We hope that a number of them will be able to join us today. I assure all of the witnesses that your full written statements, and a transcript of the hearing, will be made available to all members of the Committee. This is a very important subject. We are here today to recognize and pay tribute to a growing phenomenon in America, that of the home-based entrepreneur. Over 14 million Americans now operate home-based businesses. Women have a significant stake in the market, as more than half of the home-based business owners are women.

While women have worked hard inside the home for centuries, the home has only recently begun to be thought of as an income generating workplace.This is occurring for a variety of reasons. First, technology makes it possible for us to communicate with another through modems, faxes, cellular phones, and all those things that drive us nuts as we go everywhere and find that we are in communication. There are advantages, as well as the disadvantages. We can now have all of the comforts of the office at home, even in the car or on an airplane.

Second, many talented mid-level managers and highly skilled engineers, marketers and sales people have been downsized out of a job in corporate America.

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