WOMEN AND MINORITY GROUPS are increasing their business ownership at a higher rate than the national average, according to a recently released report from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2002 Survey of Business Owners.
The number of U.S. businesses increased by 10 percent between 1997 and 2002, to 23 million.
Conversely, the growth rate for minority and women-owned businesses ranged from 67 percent for native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander-owned businesses to 20 percent for companies owned by women.
