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Minority-owned businesses are far more inclined than non-minority firms to train future minority entrepreneurs, recruit and hire minority workers, and to locate their operations in minority communities.

Rep. Bobby Rush: Rush Address at Minority Telecom Council's 2011 Broadband and Social Justice Summit Rep. Bobby Rush 2011

Minority-owned businesses are far more inclined than non-minority firms to train future minority entrepreneurs, recruit and hire minority workers, and to locate their operations in minority communities.

Rep. Bobby Rush: Rush Address at Minority Telecom Council's 2011 Broadband and Social Justice Summit Rep. Bobby Rush 2011

Minority-owned businesses are far more inclined than non-minority firms to train future minority entrepreneurs, recruit and hire minority workers, and to locate their operations in minority communities.

Rep. Bobby Rush: Rush Address at Minority Telecom Council's 2011 Broadband and Social Justice Summit Rep. Bobby Rush 2011

Minority-owned firms seeking angel investment: 6.2% of total companies

Mike Green: Innovation Crisis in Black America Pt. 2: Where are Black Entrepreneurs and Angels? 2010

Minority-owned firms represented 3.7% of the entrepreneurs that presented their business concept to Angels.

Angels Continue To Be #1 Source Of Start-up Capital 2009

"Minority-owned broadcasters are close to becoming an extinct species," the letter said.

Minority Broadcasters Seek Federal Aid 2009

Minority-owned and "small firms, in particular, have a great opportunity to take advantage of the chaos that's still in the marketplace," Ms. Ramirez says.

For Minority Firms, Crisis Opens Doors Constance Mitchell Ford 2009

Innovative Systems Group, Inc. is a Minority-owned corporation certified with the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago.

News - chicagotribune.com 2011

Minority-owned businesses also are much more likely to be rejected for loans than other businesses - and to be charged higher interest rates when they are approved, said Fairlie, who studied the issue for the

Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010

Minority-owned businesses have a more difficult time getting loans than other businesses do, and the financial crisis has made this problem worse.

Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010