{"id":1793,"date":"2005-09-23T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2005-09-23T00:01:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:01:53","slug":"midwesterners_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Midwesterners are Less Entrepreneurial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauffman.org\/items.cfm?itemID=640\">Kauffman Foundation<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauffman.org\/pdf\/kauffman_entrep_index_0905.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Two especially surprising findings from the study are: (a) that the Latino rate of entrepreneurship increased from 0.38 percent in 1996 to 0.48 percent in 2004, which was higher than the white, non-Latino rate of 0.39 percent; and (b) that immigrants have substantially higher rates of entrepreneurship than native-born individuals. The average rate of entrepreneurship for immigrants was 0.46 percent compared to 0.35 percent for the native-born.<br \/>\nNew entrepreneurship activity is highest in the West. Other regions have similar rates of entrepreneurship.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kauffman Foundation [PDF]: Two especially surprising findings from the study are: (a) that the Latino rate of entrepreneurship increased from 0.38 percent in 1996 to 0.48 percent in 2004, which was higher than the white, non-Latino rate of 0.39 percent; and (b) that immigrants have substantially higher rates of entrepreneurship than native-born individuals. The average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}