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How well do you know merchants and small business?

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Small businesses employ what share of US private-sector workers, per the SBA?

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about 1.79% (roughly $1.75 on a $100 sale)

Around 2010, the typical credit card interchange fee charged to US merchants averaged about what share of a transaction?

This fee, paid to the card-issuing bank, is a major cost of doing business for merchants that accept credit cards.

Source: New York Times, cited in Wikipedia: Interchange fee (2010) en.wikipedia.org

about $1.2 trillion

A 2017 study estimated the self-employed workforce generates how much revenue for the US economy, about 6% of GDP?

Independent merchants, freelancers and sole proprietors add up to a sizable chunk of the whole economy.

Source: MBO Partners study, cited in Wikipedia: Self-employment (2017) en.wikipedia.org

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