Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Letter to the Editor: Celebrating Women Business Owners

Celebrating Women Business Owners

March is Women’s History Month and we’d like to highlight some of the great strides women business owners have made over the years. In 2016, over 1.1 million businesses owned by women in the U.S. employed 9.4 million workers with a payroll of $318 billion. Annual receipts of these firms topped $1.5 trillion! There are over 8 million more females that are self-empl...