But these small businesses employed only 24 percent of the city's 2.9 million workers.
By the late 1950s the coal industry employed more than 80 percent of the working population.
Twenty-five years ago, the three companies employed 60 percent of Rochester's work force.
Indeed, small business employs 60 percent of the nation's 99 million private-sector workers.
This employs less than two percent of the municipality's population.
The agricultural sector employs nearly 75 percent of the country's 38 million people.
Finance and insurance employs six percent of the workforce in the area.
Such companies now employ 61 percent of the nation's work force.
The sector employed nearly 75 percent of the labor force in 2002.
All told, foreign companies employ 17 percent of Indiana's work force.
