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In 2012, for the second consecutive year, the number of Americans starting their own businesses declined.

A report from the Kauffman Foundation found that 0.30 percent of American adults started their own business each month, down from 0.32 in 2011.

The annual Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity shows there were 514,000 new business owners a month last year. In 2011, that number was 543,000. But is this reduction a bad thing?

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