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		<title>National Urban League Centennial Conference Online: Promotes Economic Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Urban League&#8217;s Centennial Celebration is taking place in Washington, DC,  July 28-31. I&#8217;m watching the online stream of the conference and feel empowered. The conference has brought together some of the &#8220;leading business, community, and political figures&#8221; in the African American community. I am excited to see that the focus has shifted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buyer’s Remorse: A D.C. law helped tenants become owners. But it didn’t fix the sink.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the outside, the humble brick three story at 1333 Peabody Street  NW looks like most other aging apartment buildings in Brightwood. A  number of the ancient single-pane windows are cracked. Inside, carpets  are musty, paint is bubbling, and fixtures are coming loose.
“The kitchen areas, the bathroom areas, are urgent,” says resident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Links – May 10, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community Economic Development #ced2

 Long Overdue Change to Help Young Adults Get Coverage
Where is everyone moving?
One more youth program in Congress Heights just too much for neighbors [DC]
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
Poverty, low property values make it difficult to fund city services despite economic development [PA]
Maryland already is home to six Fortune 500 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. Hopes to Help 10,000 Residents Open Up Bank Accounts</title>
		<link>http://bizchelle.com/economic_development/d-c-hopes-to-help-10000-residents-open-up-bank-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally an attempt to counter the treacherous loan sharks like check cashing or rent-to-own &#8220;businesses&#8221; that practice predatory lending by charging between 300-2,000 percent interest. Learn more about other businesses that profit from targeting the poor.»
Approximately 12 percent of households in D.C. do not  have bank accounts. Many cash checks at stores or gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Q&amp;A with Secretaries Johansson and Sanchez</title>
		<link>http://bizchelle.com/web/video-qa-with-secretaries-johansson-and-sanchez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Questions and Answers with Christian S. Johansson, Secretary of Maryland&#8217;s Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED)and Alex Sanchez as Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (SLLR) about the Job Creation &#038; Recovery Tax Credit on March 25, 2010 at Saft America, Inc in Cockeysville, MD.
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		<title>Quick Links &#8211; April 5, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community Economic Development #ced2


What cities should do to become more sustainable and resilient (and it’s not what they are doing currently) 


What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?


City of Annapolis to consider privatizing Economic Development


States find Facebook, Twitter help engage state park fans


Budget cuts would eliminate 4 of 10 Main Streets initiatives in Baltimore City


NYC DOT 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Urban League launches &#8216;I Am Empowered&#8217; campaign</title>
		<link>http://bizchelle.com/web/the-national-urban-league-launches-i-am-empowered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The National Urban League may be 100 years old but we don’t have any gray hair.  We are more energetic, more focused and more determined than ever before to create a level playing field in our nation, especially as minorities are disproportionately suffering from the effects of a battered economy.  The I Am Empowered initiative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowtorious B.I.G, Snowmaggedon, SnOMG – What you can do to help</title>
		<link>http://bizchelle.com/economic_development/2010-dcmetro-snowstorm-what-you-can-do-to-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Metropolitan Area has been inundated with snow for almost an entire week. Schools, businesses, even the Federal Government have shut down. Today, local jurisdictions, called in the snowplows because the conditions have been too hazardous. It’s bad out there people.
While many of us are taking advantage of this time off from work or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Government Needs Your Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama released the Open Government Directive to encourage participation and collaboration while developing a more transparent government.
The Open Government Directive required all federal government agencies to receive public feedback and integrate advice and ideas from average citizens. The Directive was designed to make government think more strategically and function more efficiently while improving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Earthquake: How You Can Help the Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you&#8217;ve heard that Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was hit by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Tuesday. The Creole- and French-speaking Caribbean country was still struggling to recover from the 2008 catastrophic storms when disaster unexpectedly struck again.
Many schools, hospitals and other buildings collapsed and now fires are spreading quickly with [...]]]></description>
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