News Summary

• The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that trades professionals are among the most likely workers to start their own businesses within their first decade of experience.
• Many do so while their college-educated peers are still climbing mid-level ranks or battling student debt.
• As I wrote in Making Skilled Trades Sexy Again, “the sexiest career path may no longer be in a cubicle—it may be on a jobsite, building both a livelihood and a legacy’”