More people are starting their own businesses than ever before in North Carolina, according to state data.
The North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said her office is processing applications for the formation of new small businesses in record numbers.
"Small business creation has taken off like a rocket, I mean a jet-propelled rocket," she said.
When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Marshall thought her office would be quiet. Instead, she said she couldn’t have been more wrong -- and the reasons behind all the new businesses surprised her.
"I thought when the state government closed down, we'd go into a lull," she said. "I was so wrong it wasn’t funny."
Marshall has been North Carolina’s Secretary of State since 1997 and said she's never seen numbers like she's seeing now.
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