than half a million of these businesses fail each year. just last week, president obama signed the so-called small business jobs act into law, what is absent from the headlines is the fact that nearly 80% of small businesses are made up of self-employed individuals. nearly all the policy initiatives out of washington with ignore that fact and little if anything to provide incentives for anyone to strike out on their own. joined now by the executive director at the national association of the self-employed. this sort of surprising surprise you? >> no dylan it doesn't. thanks for having us on. we have been working on self-employed issues for over 30 years now and time and time again, we hear the term small business used very liberally here in washington amongst our lawmakers, but what is, you know, not used is when it comes to policy, when you look at the policy we see that our lawmakers are actually legislating small business policy for about 5% of the small business population and the other 95% are left out in the cold when it comes to