Monday, March 15, 2010

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Health Social Network OurHealth L.L.C., a digital health media company founded by three African-American women, says it will launch this fall a social network at www.ourhealthourlives.com, where wom
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NYC Training Guide The New York City Department of Small Business Services unveiled its NYC Training Guide, an online directory at www.nyc.gov/trainingguide that allows New Yorkers using the city’
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Columbia’s Vendors A Columbia University initiative expands purchasing from local businesses to include temporary staffing services and maintenance supplies. Of the nearly $73 million the university
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Small-Business Help New York City College of Technology (City Tech) became a regional center of the New York State Small Business Development Center, offering full-time expert management and technical
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Trillion-Dollar Losses Goldman Sachs forecasts global credit losses stemming from the current market turmoil will reach $1.2 trillion, with Wall Street accounting for nearly 40 percent of the losses.
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Small-Business Health Care The National Federation of Indepen-dent Business launched an aggressive health-care campaign to urge policymakers to deliver real and meaningful health-care reform for small
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College Graduation Rates Among the nation’s flagship state-chartered universities, the University of Virginia has the highest Black student graduation rate at 87 percent, followed by the University
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Cost of Doing Business A Public Policy Institute of New York State Inc. study on the cost of doing business in 2007 ranks the state’s costs the second highest in the nation after Hawaii. The study,
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Worst Performance In four of six cities surveyed in a report from the Service Employees International Union, Bank of America ranked last in locating bank branches in predominantly minority neighborhoo
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Regulatory Review and Reform The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration urges small business owners to nominate federal regulations needing review and reform at the Web site, www
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