Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Home based businesses... bigger than we know?

According to Forbes.com more than half of the American public work in small business and 52 percent of all small business are home businesses. That is roughly 80 million people in the U.S. alone.

Although there is currently is no way to know exactly how many home businesses there are in Kimball County, we can estimate that approximately one-fourth of our population has some sort of home business. We can guess with some accuracy that every person reading this knows of at least a few people who currently run some sort of business out of their home.

The people who have home businesses range a...