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Meet the Christmas Tree Farmers Keeping the Spirit of Christmas Alive

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It’s a scene straight out of a holiday movie: A family travels to an idyllic farm to cut down their own Christmas tree and spends the day walking the rows, making wreaths and sipping hot cocoa. At some of the 15,000 Christmas tree farms across the United States, this picture-perfect scene isn’t fiction. every year.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

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We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. It’s more important to be employable than, maybe, to be employed full-time.”.

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Foreign Born in the US Workforce

Small Business Labs

  This is little changed from 2008, but up from 14.5%   Again, this is little changed from 2008 but up from 49% in 2004.  .  Foreign born workers comprise about 15.5% of the US civilian labor force, or about 23.9 million workers.    Hispanics make up just over 50.5% of foreign born workers. 

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Give a care? Give a share!

Loosely Speaking

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:39 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Prescott Arizona I used to love (and be good at) gardening. Add it to the list of things to try again when I am retired. Pingback // December 13th, 2008 // 10:46 am [.] Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Give a care?

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

Small Business Labs

  Key quote from the article: "Under the Obama administration and the 2008 farm bill passed by Congress, the USDA is shifting attention to small and mid-size farms, encouraging organic and sustainable agriculture, and investing in projects to bring locally grown meat and produce to consumers. Having trouble reading this image?

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An Overview of the Non-Profit Sector

Small Business Labs

.  Most of the data on non-profits pre-date the recession, so we don't have a good sense of its impact on the number of non-profits.    Donation data is more current and fell 5.6%   It likely fell again in 2009.    But we don't think this resulted in a decline in the number of small non-profits. 

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  It was also a key factor in our 2008 forecast that the number of small businesses would increase during the recession - a forecast that met with a lot of skepticism but proved correct (OK, I admit to patting ourselves on the back on this one).  This prevents automated programs from posting comments. View an alternate.

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