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The United States imports a lot of American flags.

From CBS News Moneywatch : Many people in the business world take classes in the art of verbal communication: how to give a speech, make a presentation, chair a meeting. But the other half of the equation -- listening -- gets scant attention. At least until now. Sheryl Connelly, a futurist who works for Ford Motor Co., spends a lot of time talking and giving presentations. She's also a regular visitor to the TED conferences, where it is no surprise she likes to listen. And it was at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh this week where she talked about listening well. The skills of listening, Connelly argues, are really life skills: treasuring the precious and always limited time that you have. Why waste it?

2012 ZIP Code Business Patterns provides data on the number of business establishments by employment-size class for detailed industries. Statistics are provided for about 40,000 ZIP codes nationwide.

Small businesses are significant job creators, particularly in distressed inner city neighborhoods. And yet, information on businesses, especially in inner cities is often incomplete. ICIC’s recent study of the accuracy of business data in Boston discovered startling inconsistencies between public and commercial databases: • 43% of businesses in a leading commercial database were not found in public city and state databases. • A walking inventory of commercial districts in inner city Boston revealed that 30% of businesses in the commercial database did not exist, and new businesses were identified that were not included in the database. Insufficient small business data creates barriers for cities to connect their small businesses with support resources. It also hinders the efficacy of private sector "buy-local" efforts. To address this issue, ICIC developed a roadmap to help cities identify business information gaps and collect more comprehensive data on local busines

The National Council of Nonprofits is a trusted resource and advocate for America’s charitable nonprofits. Through its network of State Associations and 25,000-plus members – the nation’s largest network of nonprofits – it serves as a central coordinator and mobilizer to help nonprofits achieve greater collective impact in local communities across the country. It identifies emerging trends, share proven practices, and promote solutions that benefit charitable nonprofits and the communities they serve. See more HERE .

The Data Analysis team within the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis (OTEA), as part of the International Trade Administration, seeks to provide a solid foundation of trade and industry data to support the development of national trade policies. The Office of Trade and Economic Analysis provides industry and policy decision makers with information on the impacts of economic and regulatory policies on U.S. manufacturing and services industries, as well as provides a solid foundation of trade and industry data to support the development of national trade policies. OTEA performs in-depth industry analysis on the effects of both domestic and foreign policy developments on U.S. business competitiveness. Our core projects are benchmarking the environment facing U.S. industry, analyzing regulatory reform outcomes, issuing antitrust exemption certificates for export trading company mergers, and assessing foreign investments in the United States. OTEA publishes research papers that an

Hispanic Business : Minority entrepreneurs who feel their road to success is more difficult than others may not be imagining things. Sterling Bone, an assistant professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, said research he has completed shows that entrepreneurs who are minorities face more obstacles to success and deal with the rejection they sometimes experience differently than their Caucasian counterparts. Bone's conclusions were recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research, a top academic publication. He collaborated on the paper with Glenn L. Christensen, Garrett Research Fellow, and associate professor of marketing at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and Jerome D. Williams, the Prudential Chair in Business and research director of the Center of Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development at Rutgers University. Their research included sending "mystery shoppers" to banks seeking inf