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Building Business - Memphis Daily News

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Memphis Daily News

Building Business
Memphis Daily News
Message: Dr. Leonard Greenhalgh brought a wake-up call with him to Memphis at the end of August, when he came to the city as one of several featured speakers for the Memphis Minority Business Council Continuum's 2012 Economic Development Forum.

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LRSD to work more with minorities, women - KATV

Google Search on Minority Business News - September 14, 2012 - 8:46am


LRSD to work more with minorities, women
KATV
The district is hoping to implement a new policy that would give more opportunities to minority business owners. It's a new policy that was first introduced about six months ago with the purpose of giving more minority-owned businesses an opportunity ...

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Polish Anti-Trust Office Approves Two Canal Plus Deals - Fox Business

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Polish Anti-Trust Office Approves Two Canal Plus Deals
Fox Business
WA) and to merge its Polish pay-television business with TVN's pay-TV subsidiary. Canal Plus said in November 2011 it planned to acquire a significant minority stake in N-Vision B.V., the parent company of Polish Television Holding B.V., which in turn ...

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The back-end of DC minority 'fronting' - New Pittsburgh Courier

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The back-end of DC minority 'fronting'
New Pittsburgh Courier
Such is the case with the Washington, D.C.'s Department of Small and Local Business Development. One of its missions is to increase the participation of D.C.-based business, particularly small and minority-owned firms. It has become popular for this ...

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Europe's minorities at a loss - Albany Times Union

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CBS News

Europe's minorities at a loss
Albany Times Union
In Germany, a university conducted a study sending out identical resumes in response to hundreds of job ads from small businesses offering internships. The only difference was that one had a Turkish name and the other a traditional German name on the ...
Europe's minority youth face steep hurdlesBend Bulletin

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KATV - Breaking News, Weather and Razorback SportsLR School District to ... - KATV

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KATV - Breaking News, Weather and Razorback SportsLR School District to ...
KATV
The district is hoping to implement a new policy that would give more opportunities to minority business owners. It's a new policy that was first introduced about six months ago with the purpose of giving more minority-owned businesses an opportunity ...

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Hispanic Dems upset about DNC contract that went to Republican leader - TheNewsTribune.com

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Hispanic Dems upset about DNC contract that went to Republican leader
TheNewsTribune.com
Some Hispanic Democrats are angry that one of the few major contracts for minority businesses at the Democratic National Convention went to a leader of North Carolina's Republican Party. By Franco Ordonez; McClatchy Newspapers. By Franco Ordonez ...

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Hispanic Dems upset about DNC contract that went to Republican leader - SunHerald.com

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SunHerald.com

Hispanic Dems upset about DNC contract that went to Republican leader
SunHerald.com
Hispanics Democrats are angry that the $80,000 contract to produce this bottle for the Democratic National Convention, one of the few major contracts for minority businesses, went to the chairman of the state's Republican National Hispanic Assembly ...

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Perez nabs Business Person of the Year - Buffalo Law Journal

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Buffalo Law Journal

Perez nabs Business Person of the Year
Buffalo Law Journal
He recently was named Business Person of the Year by the Minority Bar Association of Western New York. "There are so many people in the Buffalo Niagara region that are doing so many wonderful things, it is humbling to be recognized for the work I do," ...

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United States : US BANK, MEDA roll out minority business assistance ... - Equities.com

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United States : US BANK, MEDA roll out minority business assistance ...
Equities.com
U.S. Bank along with the Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA) has rolled out a chain of events to support Twin Cities minority entrepreneurs. The two organizations said that the quarterly sessions consist of one-on-one business plan and ...

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News Summary: Europe's minority youth face hurdles - Macon Telegraph (blog)

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News Summary: Europe's minority youth face hurdles
Macon Telegraph (blog)
FIGHTING BACK: The European Grassroots Antiracist Movement exposed increasing discrimination against ethnic minorities by testing young people's access to bars, nightclubs and restaurants. Next year, the umbrella organization plans to test hiring ...

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Minority Vendors Say Awards Program at Risk on US Court Ruling - Businessweek

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Minority Vendors Say Awards Program at Risk on US Court Ruling
Businessweek
Participants now say the ruling may have a broader effect on federal awards to minority-owned small businesses, already bracing for looming budget cuts designed to reduce the U.S. deficit. “It is potentially the death knell of the 8(a) program ...

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Small Businesses In 5 Cities Get Energy Aid - Hartford Courant

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Small Businesses In 5 Cities Get Energy Aid
Hartford Courant
Most of the 779 businesses chosen for the $1,000 grants were owned by women or members of minority groups, the nonprofit organization said. The grants — to businesses in Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, New London and Bridgeport — were given ...

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Beyond the Rhetoric The Back End of DC Minority 'Fronting' - Washington Informer

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Beyond the Rhetoric The Back End of DC Minority 'Fronting'
Washington Informer
Such is the case with the Washington, D.C.'s Department of Small and Local Business Development. One of its missions is to increase the participation of D.C.-based business, particularly small and minority-owned firms. It has become popular for this ...

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Why Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Is Now Taking A Job With The GOP ... - Business Insider

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Business Insider

Why Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Is Now Taking A Job With The GOP ...
Business Insider
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today that Jesse Benton, the grassroots political operative who ran Ron Paul's presidential campaign, is leaving Paul World at the end of this year to run McConnell's 2014 re-election campaign. The hire ...
Kentucky Fried Texan: Ron Paul campaign chief Jesse Benton hired by Mitch ...Houston Chronicle (blog)

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New investors for the Carolina Hurricanes - Charlotte Business Journal (blog)

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New investors for the Carolina Hurricanes
Charlotte Business Journal (blog)
Carolina Hurricanes great Ron Francis is now a minority owner of the team for which he scored so many goals, the Triangle Business Journal reports. Francis joined with four other investment groups that each purchased a minority stake in the team.

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Europe's minority youth face steeper job hurdles - Businessweek

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San Francisco Chronicle

Europe's minority youth face steeper job hurdles
Businessweek
PARIS (AP) — Europe is failing its youth, and none more than its ethnic and religious minorities. As Europe slides back into recession, young graduates from the Class of 2012 across Europe are returning from their summer holidays and finding that even ...
As crisis swirls, Europe's minority youth face extra hurdle in job hunt ...Washington Post

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Diversity scholarship awards minority students for academic excellence ... - K-State Collegian

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K-State Collegian

Diversity scholarship awards minority students for academic excellence ...
K-State Collegian
Twenty students from the College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration were recognized for academic excellence and service to the community at the sixth annual Project Impact Diversity Scholars Banquet at the Colbert Hills Country ...

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Luther Burbank Savings settles with DOJ over alleged loan bias - Los Angeles Times

Google Search on Minority Business News - September 12, 2012 - 10:10pm


Luther Burbank Savings settles with DOJ over alleged loan bias
Los Angeles Times
It lends mainly to owners of apartments, many of them in minority neighborhoods -- a business the government did not challenge. The allegations instead related to a $400,000 minimum loan amount Luther Burbank had set for a smaller business line that ...

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Slideshow: Top advice from Dayton minority-owned firms - Dayton Business Journal

Google Search on Minority Business News - September 12, 2012 - 5:17pm


Slideshow: Top advice from Dayton minority-owned firms
Dayton Business Journal
The largest 25 minority-owned businesses in the Dayton area account for more than 3,140 jobs — including 1,675 local jobs — and more than $913 million in annual revenue, according to the latest Dayton Business Journal research. That's an increase of ...
Dayton's Top 7 Manufacturing CompaniesBizjournals.com

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