<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9d777dbb-0bc1-4cad-9909-e706f885a311/F9C94CC1-87F0-45E7-8304-EADFB2CA724D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/santaana/article_1767479.php" href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/santaana/article_1767479.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ocregister.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/santaana/article_1767479.php"><P>The percentage of job hunters who decided to create their own jobs by starting a business surged 29 percent in the first three months of 2007 compared with the same period a year earlier, said the outplacement firm of Challenger Gray & Christmas. That conclusion was based on interviews with 3,000 people looking for work in all industries around the country.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/santaana/article_1767479.php">These new business owners were 10.6 percent of job seekers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/santaana/article_1767479.php"><P>The number of startups has been steadily climbing since the second quarter of 2006, when self-employment dropped to a four-year low of 6.2 percent of job seekers. "The start-up rate has increased by an average of 19.7 percent each quarter since," said Chief Executive John Challenger.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/santaana/article_1767479.php"><P>The California Employment Development Department doesn't expect that enthusiasm to wane any time soon. It projects that Orange County self-employment will increase 9 percent to almost 147,000 people from 2004 to 2014.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F9C94CC1-87F0-45E7-8304-EADFB2CA724D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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