Census: Native-owned businesses increased

According to a press release from the US Census Bureau, the agency estimates that between 2002 and 2007, the number of American Indian and Alaska Native-owned businesses increased by 17.7 percent while total number of US businesses increased 17.9 percent during the same time frame. Receipts generated by all surveyed Native-owned businesses in 2007, totaling $34.4 billion, represented a 28-percent increase from 2002. However, the survey doesn't count tribally-owned or Alaska Native village or regional corporations or their subsidiaries. Read the press release, here, and read the summarized findings themselves, here. And, if you're interested in all the estimates of business ownership related to other social categories, such as gender or veteran status, click here.