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BENTONVILLE -- Tatum Whiting is supplementing her family's income doing what she loves -- creating art. Whiting is the owner of the Speckled Art, which she runs out of her Bentonville apartment.

At the Techonomy Detroit conference, Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson talked to us about the need for policymakers to treat micro-entrepreneurs as small businesses. "The idea that you can start a business ...