Close to three-fourths (72 percent) of those low-income entrepreneurs experienced almost a tripling in their household income.
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But based on rates of self-employment, housing affordability, income growth and migration, immigrant entrepreneurs tend to prefer sprawling, heavily suburbanized regions, many of them clustered in the South and Southwest.
The private sector needs the injections of income that will create profits for those entrepreneurs and induce them to invest.
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Another Aspen study found that those who were on welfare before becoming entrepreneurs were able to generate enough income on their own that, on average, the amount of public assistance that these entrepreneurs accepted declined by 61 percent between 1988 and 1992.
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Do Californians hear the giant sucking sound of successful entrepreneurs and workers abandoning Southern California and heading toward no-income tax states?
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At the heart of the Democrats' plan are an income tax surcharge that will fall heavily on entrepreneurs who run small businesses and a harsh mandate that requires employers to provide health care or face a penalty -- a mandate that could eviscerate ERISA by persuading employers to stop offering health care benefits to their employees.
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Officially, the SBA says that the absence of collateral should not be justification for declination of a loan application, which is meant to give consideration to low-income entrepreneurs.
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Training rural women about the Maya nut has made them champions of rain forest conservation and reforestation, as well as entrepreneurs who turn Maya nut products into income.
Looked at modernly, due to their success as entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers and investment bankers, many Americans have a great deal of disposable income that they can exchange for their myriad unsatisfied wants.
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