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		<title>New Web Location for this Site!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although we appreciate the great following we have built at this page, we have moved to a new location: www.MinorityEconomicReport.com Please find us there and sign up for our newsletter! Tagged: minority economics, minority small business<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=813&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEO is Extremely Important to your Small Business, Just Make Sure Your SEO is Wearing a White Hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times piled some fairly harmful media attention on JC Penney over the weekend by questioning how the behemoth U.S. retailer was able to consistently turn up first in line on Google&#8217;s search results for a large number of seemingly unrelated keywords. From &#8220;bedding&#8221; to &#8220;blue jeans,&#8221; the JC Penney name popped up as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=749&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Hire, Without Actually Hiring: Grow your small biz with little cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been the biggest problem of the recession &#8211; small business owners aren&#8217;t doing much hiring. That started to turn around last year, but a new Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index poll shows there is now big pent-up demand for workers. In the study, more than half of entrepreneurs said they hired new workers last year. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=730&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balance Piece: Why Unions Are Necessary for Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Krugman, NY Times In principle, every American citizen has an equal say in our political process. In practice, of course, some of us are more equal than others. Billionaires can field armies of lobbyists; they can finance think tanks that put the desired spin on policy issues; they can funnel cash to politicians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=803&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Union Myths: The Employee Free Choice Act does anything but provide Free Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Sowell http://www.JewishWorldReview.com &#124; The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians. Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called &#8220;Employee Free Choice Act&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=769&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Subway got to 66k Restaurants:  6 Lessons for Every Entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows Subway is a successful franchise chain. But did you know last year it cracked 33,000 units and should shortly hit 34,000? The fresh-sandwich chain passed McDonald&#8217;s to take the top fast-food franchise crown &#8212; the Golden Arches have just 32,000 restaurants. This may seem like a big-business story at first, but Subway and McDonald&#8217;s have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=745&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Should Light Some Fires: Krikorian Thinks Puerto Ricans Aren&#8217;t Part of &#8220;we&#8221; Americans, Rodriguez Fires Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s quite the touchy subject, which we, frankly, try to avoid, but economically speaking, does Puerto Rico have a chance at being independent or are they destined to become an official part of the union? What do you mean &#8220;we&#8221;? By Mark Krikorian at NationalReview.com: Posted on March 01, 2011 12:10 PM I’m at a hearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=790&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural-Based Businesses May offer Much-Needed Perk to Small Business Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marshall Kirby, Public Policy Analyst Do you own a business based in the rural economy?  If you do, there have been two really great articles recently.  Whether you own/operate a farm, shop, or a service related to business in small towns across the country, you have probably recognized that you are the driver of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=751&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg: Puerto Rico Sells $250 Million After S&amp;P Upgrade: Muni Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brendan A. McGrail and Matt Robinson March 8 (Bloomberg) — Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory that reduced its budget deficit by more than a third since 2009, is selling $250 million of debt after its first credit-rating upgrade since Standard &#38; Poor’s began coverage in 1986. S&#38;P yesterday boosted the commonwealth’s general-obligation rating one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=777&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Puerto Rico Gets Good Marks From S&amp;P for Fiscal and Economic Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted March 7, 2011 at PRFAA.com Standard &#38; Poor’s gives Island’s credit its first upgrade in 28 years; Business Monitor International improves its economic forecast for Puerto Rico In what constitutes yet another endorsement of the Government of Puerto Rico’s management of its fiscal and economic agenda during the last two years, credit rating agency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nprchamber.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14334458&#038;post=773&#038;subd=nprchamber&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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