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		<title>Tax Credits and Deductions Available when Filing your 2011 Returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For National Small Business Week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shared the tax benefits and resources available to small businesses this year. The IRS urged small businesses to take advantage of the tax-saving opportunities available when they file their 2011 returns. Two key provisions that business owners should consider are the small business health care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/05/tax-credits-and-deductions-available-when-filing-your-2011-returns/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Raise Revenues, Cut Expenses and Negotiate a Constitutional Bounced Budget’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend Congressman Vern Buchanan held a Town Hall meeting in Bradenton, Florida to discuss access to capital, creating jobs and controlling the spending in Washington. The biggest issues highlighted as priority: getting people back to work and reducing our deficit. The United States projects to collect about 2 trillion dollars in taxes from taxpayers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/05/raise-revenues-cut-expenses-and-negotiate-a-constitutional-bounced-budget%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Venture Partners vs Borrowing Capital?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your business is looking for venture capital money, you might have a hard time raising capital in today’s environment. It has become more and more difficult to convince venture investors to put money to work. There are not a lot of investors out there willing to commit; and those who have the means to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/03/venture-partners-vs-borrowing-capital/</link>
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		<title>How Much Guarantee Does the SBA Really Provides?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US’ SBA (Small Business Administration) does not lend capital directly to small business owners, but provides a guarantee for loans made by banks. If you are SBA approved, the SBA guarantees that a certain percentage (%) of your loan will be repaid, thus eliminating risk for the lender. However, despite applying for government secured loans, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/02/how-much-guarantee-does-the-sba-really-provides/</link>
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		<title>Creating Jobs: a Buzz Word in Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Vern Buchanan held a meeting at the Sarasota high school auditorium this Saturday, February 12th, to hear from small business owners on current issues facing our area and the country. The Congressman stated that the biggest thrusts in our economy can be resumed in 2 main points: jobs and small business development. 14 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/02/creating-jobs-a-buzz-word-in-florida/</link>
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		<title>Does Sarasota’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Needs Braveheart?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Response to TWIS Weekly Breakdown ‘We Need a Braveheart’ (Wednesday, the 19th of January 2011): Once upon a time in a far Faraway Land called Sarasota County, small business owners were raising their voices against ‘selfish politics and bureaucratic roadblocks’ standing in the way of economic stimulus. The five-year economic development plan of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/01/does-sarasota%e2%80%99s-economic-development-corporation-edc-needs-braveheart/</link>
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		<title>Fed’s 2011 Program Encourages Small Business Lending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The affiliation between lending institutions and small firms is very important to US economic recovery. Small businesses account for about half of the private-sector economy. Access to credit enables US entrepreneurs to bring dynamic ideas, innovative services and new products to the market. Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has been urging financial institutions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/01/fed%e2%80%99s-2011-program-encourages-small-business-lending/</link>
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		<title>SBA Loans Applications Made Easy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although US’ Small Business Administration (SBA) just launched a new modern website, the shear volume of links and information crammed into few pages seem overwhelming. ‘SBA&#8217;s New Website Not Yet Worth a Click’ jokes Jerry Chautin in the title of his article in Herald-Tribune.com today. Finding money has never been harder. But when the difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/01/sba-loans-applications-made-easy/</link>
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		<title>US Unemployment: Worst Rates in a Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘Thirty percent of the nation’s 372 labor markets are currently saddled with their worst unemployment rates in a decade’ reported The Tampa Bay Business Journal today. According to a study by Business First, a total of 112 US markets have posted higher unemployment rates this October then any other month since the beginning of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/01/us-unemployment-worst-rates-in-a-decade/</link>
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		<title>Two New Tutoring Centers to Open Thanks to Sarasota’s Economic Development Investment Fund (EDIF)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Helping kids get education is on of the many successful lending projects directed by EDIF. This December the non-profit organization assisted funding a tutoring program in upstate New York. Iglesia Education Centers just opened two additional learning centers, creating 40 new teachers positions and a space for more then 300 kids to advance their education. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edif.us/2011/01/two-new-tutoring-centers-to-open-thanks-to-sarasota%e2%80%99s-economic-development-investment-fund-edif/</link>
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