The state of entrepreneurship among black Americans
How are black entrepreneurs doing these days? Harry Alford joins Jim Blasingame to report that black Americans have significantly increased their position as small business owners in the past 20 years, but the current economy is damaging.
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Entrepreneurship, Women and Minority Issues
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