McConnon Research Cited in Employment Op-Ed
Research on micro-businesses by University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was cited in a Bangor Daily News op-ed column about how the state’s economy would improve if each of Maine’s 109,560 micro-businesses, or sole proprietorships, could hire just one person. Writer Eloise Vitelli, program director for the statewide Women, Work and Community organization, says if only one third of them created a job, more than 36,000 people could go back to work.
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