Minority and Women Business Ownership Increasing Faster Than National Average

U.S. Census and SBA Loan Programs Reflect Exponential Growth in Entrepreneurship
WASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Census Bureau yesterday released preliminary estimates from its 2002 Survey of Business Owners, indicating that minority groups and women are increasing business ownership at a much faster rate than the national average. (more…)

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Friday brain dump (7/29/05)–UPDATED

Every week around this time, I try to share with you briefly those issues and thoughts that I was not able to cover on this site for the past week.
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Mary T. Washington: First black female CPA

Mary T. Washington, a bookkeeper who in the 1920s began methodically surmounting racial barriers in business to become the first African-American woman to be a certified public accountant and the head of one of the largest black-owned accounting firms in the nation, died on July 2 at a nursing home in Chicago. She was 99. [...]

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