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3 Cities Where Immigrants Helped Save Main Street
January 14, 2015
/ Ted Hesson

Immigrants represent an outsize 28 percent of Main Street business owners nationally becoming a lifeline for dying neighborhoods, finds a new report by AS/COA and the Fiscal Policy Institute.

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Report Shines Light on Role of Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses
January 14, 2015
/ Nancy Dahlberg

A new AS/COA and Fiscal Policy Institute report finds that in metropolitan Miami, immigrants make up 54 percent of the Main Street business owners, boosting local economic growth.

 

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Interactive: The Impact of Immigrants on Main Street Business and Population in U.S. Metro Areas
January 14, 2015

Explore data on how immigrants contribute to local economies across the United States.

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Bringing Vitality to Main Street: How Immigrant Small Businesses Help Local Economies Grow
January 14, 2015

This AS/COA-Fiscal Policy Institute report shows how immigrant entrepreneurs affect growth in U.S. cities.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Prosper on Main Street
January 13, 2015
/ Miriam Jordan

The number of immigrant main street businesses grew in seven U.S. metropolitan areas that otherwise saw an overall decline in such businesses, reveals a new AS/COA and Fiscal Policy Institute report.

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Obama's Cuba Policy Is Change We Can Believe in
December 18, 2014
/ Alana Tummino

The U.S. shift in Cuba policy will provide a needed lifeline to the island’s private sector, writes AS/COA’s Alana Tummino for U.S. News & World Report.

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Una de las claves para el desarrollo de Cuba: iniciativa empresarial
December 18, 2014
/ Susan Segal

Estados Unidos puede acelerar el proceso de desarrollo permitiendo la inversión en pequeñas empresas en la isla, escribe la Presidenta y CEO de AS/COA Susan Segal para La Nación.

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