Military spouses should be the next frontier of entrepreneurship support.
An amendment recently introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would encourage support for military spouse entrepreneurs. Military spouses are an important potential source of new businesses—and entrepreneurship is a critically important economic option for military spouses. But to realize entrepreneurial ambitions, they need help.
First, some basic data:
There are nearly three-quarters of a million military spouses in the United States. It is a heavily female population (around 90%) and younger than the average American worker. They are more educated than the