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	<title>BLACK ENTERPRISE &#187; Joyce Jones</title>
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		<title>Washington Report: Updates From Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/19/washington-report-updates-from-capitol-hill-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/19/washington-report-updates-from-capitol-hill-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama signed the HIRE Act into law and sent Congress a blueprint for reform of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discusses healthcare reform; less than 48 hours until House votes on Senate healthcare bill]]></description>
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		<title>Black Jobless Rates Worsened During Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/17/black-unemployment-rates-growing-worse-in-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/17/black-unemployment-rates-growing-worse-in-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Joint Economic Committee delivered sobering—yet unsurprising—statistics on black unemployment rates in a report titled “Understanding the Economy: Long-term Unemployment in the African American Community.”]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform in the Final Stretch</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/16/healthcare-reform-in-the-final-stretch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/16/healthcare-reform-in-the-final-stretch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his third campaign-style speech in a little more than a week, President Barack Obama urged Congress Monday to show some courage and send a healthcare bill to his desk.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report: Updates from Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/12/washington-report-updates-from-capitol-hill-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/12/washington-report-updates-from-capitol-hill-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arne Duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black farmers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Black Farmers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[René Préval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[settlement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd, Jr. fears that Capitol Hill lawmakers won’t meet the March 31 deadline to appropriate funds for the settlement agreement reached last month with the Agriculture and Justice departments.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report: Updates from Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/05/washington-report-updates-from-capitol-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/05/washington-report-updates-from-capitol-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the House votes on the $15 billion Senate jobs bill later today, it may or may not pass. What’s certain is that several members of the Congressional Black Caucus are planning to vote against the measure, which they charge is more of a “tax credit” bill than anything else.]]></description>
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		<title>Rangel Relinquishes Leadership of Ways and Means Panel</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/03/rangel-may-be-forced-to-relinquish-chairmanship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/03/03/rangel-may-be-forced-to-relinquish-chairmanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Artur Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics violations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of allegations that he violated ethics rules, New York Rep. Charles Rangel announced Wednesday morning that he has requested a leave of absence as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.]]></description>
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		<title>Changing for the Better?</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2010/03/01/changing-for-the-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2010/03/01/changing-for-the-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career advancement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mentor programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mentorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Minority Supplier Development Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in several years, the Small Business Administration has conducted a comprehensive review of its 8(a) program and will announce regulation changes this summer. Created to help small, economically disadvantaged firms grow their businesses and access government contracting opportunities, the program has frequently come under fire for being inadequate and out of touch with current economic realities.]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform Summit Yields Little Consensus</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/26/healthcare-reform-summit-yields-little-consensus-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/26/healthcare-reform-summit-yields-little-consensus-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday’s healthcare reform summit was, in many ways, a last-ditch opportunity for President Barack Obama to try to win bipartisan support for the centerpiece of his legislative agenda. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers Square Off on Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/25/lawmakers-to-square-off-on-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/25/lawmakers-to-square-off-on-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in what he hoped was a “frank and honest” conversation during today's healthcare reform summit.]]></description>
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		<title>USDA, Black Farmers Reach Settlement</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/19/black-farmers-to-congress-more-justice-and-funds-in-multimillion-dollar-settlement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/19/black-farmers-to-congress-more-justice-and-funds-in-multimillion-dollar-settlement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USDA announced that it will pay $1.25 billion to settle claims from black farmers who say the agency used racial discrimination to delay or deny them loans and other government assistance]]></description>
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		<title>CDFI Small Business Lending Program Finally a Go</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/09/cdfi-small-business-lending-program-finally-a-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/09/cdfi-small-business-lending-program-finally-a-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Treasury department announced last week that it will provide up to $1 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program Funds to spur lending by Community Development Financial Institutions to businesses in the areas hardest hit by the economy.]]></description>
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		<title>SBA Works to Strengthen Its 8(a) Program</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/03/sba-looks-to-strengthen-its-8a-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/02/03/sba-looks-to-strengthen-its-8a-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mentor-protege program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Small Business Administration has conducted a comprehensive review of its 8(a) program and will announce regulation changes this summer. ]]></description>
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		<title>BE Forum Explores Solutions for Economic Revival</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/28/be-forum-explores-solutions-for-economic-revival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/28/be-forum-explores-solutions-for-economic-revival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Enterprise hosted a forum to explore strategies and solutions that will ensure that African Americans will be key players in the nation’s economic revival.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Resets Agenda in State of the Union Address</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/27/obama-to-reset-agenda-in-state-of-the-union-address/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/27/obama-to-reset-agenda-in-state-of-the-union-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama vowed to not abandon plans for longer-term fixes to healthcare, energy, and education in his State of the Union address.]]></description>
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		<title>Black Firms Shut Out of Stimulus Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/22/black-firms-shut-out-of-stimulus-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/22/black-firms-shut-out-of-stimulus-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black contractors aren’t getting their fair share of the stimulus dollars being poured into transportation and infrastructure projects around the country.In fact they’re not getting any at all, according to statistics released by the Transportation Equity Network.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Experts to Blacks: Think Green</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/12/energy-experts-to-blacks-you-must-think-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/12/energy-experts-to-blacks-you-must-think-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BEing Green]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If African Americans hope to not only participate in the emerging green economy but also play a significant role in getting and creating jobs in that sector, they need to start talking.]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Leaders Begin Reconciling Healthcare Bills</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/11/congressional-leaders-begin-reconciling-healthcare-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/2010/01/11/congressional-leaders-begin-reconciling-healthcare-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When members of the U.S. House of Representatives return to Washington this week, they will fully immerse themselves in the daunting task of reconciling the House and Senate healthcare reform bills into a final piece of legislation that President Barack Obama can sign into law before his first state-of-the-union address.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/23/washington-report-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/23/washington-report-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatches from Capitol Hill: Healthcare reform]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/18/washington-report-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/18/washington-report-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatches from Capitol Hill: House passes jobs bill; small business owners get a lifeline; Obama promotes energy-efficient homes; Leaders urge a more accurate census count; RNC hosts a tea party.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/11/washington-report-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/11/washington-report-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entreprenurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report: Week of Dec. 7-11]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/04/washington-report-11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/04/washington-report-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arbitron Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report: Week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 4]]></description>
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		<title>National Urban League&#8217;s Green Jobs Summit Focuses on Minority Inclusion</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/03/national-urban-leagues-green-jobs-summit-focuses-on-minority-inclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/12/03/national-urban-leagues-green-jobs-summit-focuses-on-minority-inclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BEing Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very trendy these days to talk about being green. The greening of America, after all, holds the promise of becoming the next great economic boon—even bigger than the dot.com bubble--that will not only create tens of thousands of jobs but also has the added value of helping the United States to play a leading role in saving the world from the adverse impacts of climate change. ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/20/washington-report-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/20/washington-report-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report: Week of Nov. 16- Nov. 20]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury Secretary, SBA Chief Host Listening Session for Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/20/treasury-secretary-sba-chief-host-listening-session-for-entrepreneurs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/20/treasury-secretary-sba-chief-host-listening-session-for-entrepreneurs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Obama administration announced with great fanfare a plan to increase small business lending. It also promised to host a conference where small businesses, small business advocates and lenders could share their recommendations on the most effective and fastest ways to get capital to cash-strapped entrepreneurs.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/13/washington-report-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/13/washington-report-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report: Week of Nov. 9-13]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/06/washington-report-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/06/washington-report-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report: Week of Nov. 9 - Nov. 13]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Make Significant Gains After Long Drought</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/04/republicans-make-significant-gains-after-long-drought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/04/republicans-make-significant-gains-after-long-drought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Steele]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly being Republican is a whole lot more satisfying than it has been for a long time. On Tuesday, the Grand Old Party won gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, largely with the help of the very Independent voters who gave President Barack Obama his historic victory in 2008.]]></description>
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		<title>One Year Later: Has Obama Lived Up to the Promise?</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/03/one-year-later-has-obama-lived-up-to-the-promise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/business/business-news/2009/11/03/one-year-later-has-obama-lived-up-to-the-promise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public confidence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a year makes. On Election Day 2008, a wave of euphoria swept round the world over the news that America had elected not just its first black president but also a transformational figure who, despite “the enormity of the task that lies ahead,” assured us that “all things are possible.” Has Barack Obama lived up to the promise?]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/30/washington-report-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/30/washington-report-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report: Week of Oct. 26]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Announces Plans to Boost Small Business Lending</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/10/28/obama-announces-plans-to-boost-small-business-lending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/10/28/obama-announces-plans-to-boost-small-business-lending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flanked by thousands of boxes of paper records stored by Metropolitan Archives, a Maryland-based business that used an Small Business Administration loan last year to buy its building, Obama said, “There’s still too little credit flowing to our small businesses,” that need financing to stay open or to grow.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/23/washington-report-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/23/washington-report-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homebuyers Tax Credit May Be Too Popular

In response to abuses and fraud uncovered by the IRS and Treasury Department into the First-Time Homebuyer Credit program, the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday to improve the screening of applicants and administration of the program.
According to the agencies, 580 taxpayers under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/16/washington-report-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/16/washington-report-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/09/washington-report-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/09/washington-report-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report]]></description>
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		<title>Political Pundits Give Their Take on Obama&#8217;s Nobel Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/09/political-pundits-give-their-take-on-obamas-nobel-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/09/political-pundits-give-their-take-on-obamas-nobel-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just nine months in office and only the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama was nominated within days after the inauguration. The committee said it’s very rare that a person can capture the world’s attention and give people hope for a better future as Obama has. Is that enough?]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing Times for Charles Rangel</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/08/taxing-times-for-charlie-rangel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/08/taxing-times-for-charlie-rangel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Rangel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In better times, New York Rep. Charles Rangel—better known as Charlie around the Hill—can be seen gliding between his House office building and the Capitol with the air of a man completely at ease with himself and equally as at home at state dinners as he is sitting on a wall outside of a political convention drinking a brew with his homies.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/02/washington-report-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/10/02/washington-report-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updates from Capitol Hill]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/09/25/washington-report-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/09/25/washington-report-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arbitron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federal Communications Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Report]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurship and Innovation Are High on CBCF Agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/09/25/entrepreneurship-and-innovation-are-high-on-cbcf-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/09/25/entrepreneurship-and-innovation-are-high-on-cbcf-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the national town hall meeting Thursday hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on the first full day of its Annual Legislative Conference, the panelists’ messages were centered on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Despite the success of the Recovery Act that the Obama administration frequently touts, many African Americans around the nation, black entrepreneurs in particular, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBCF Forum Focuses on Challenges to Minority Business Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/09/25/cbcf-forum-focuses-on-challenges-to-minority-business-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/09/25/cbcf-forum-focuses-on-challenges-to-minority-business-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Congress Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rothe Development Corp.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 4, 2008, the day the nation elected its first black president, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the case Rothe Development Corp. v. Department of Defense, ruling unconstitutional a minority contracting program authorized under Section 1207 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act of 1987. The impact of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Report</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/09/18/washington-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/09/18/washington-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sallie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BlackEnterprise.com analyzes the week that was in Washington]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Outlines Healthcare Goals Before Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/09/10/obama-outlines-healthcare-goals-before-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/09/10/obama-outlines-healthcare-goals-before-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking to shift the vitriolic and partisan tenor of the debate over healthcare reform to one of pragmatism and compromise, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress Wednesday night to urge both Republicans and Democrats to deliver legislation that will provide access to affordable health insurance coverage for all.]]></description>
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		<title>How Healthcare Reform Affects You</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/consumer-affairs/2009/09/09/how-healthcare-reform-affects-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/consumer-affairs/2009/09/09/how-healthcare-reform-affects-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing debate over healthcare reform is as intense as ever, but nothing has been settled and there are still many compromises ahead before final bills are voted on in both the House and the Senate. Some of what the American public is hearing, however, has caused concern about how reform would affect them. Here’s a guide to the facts--and some of the fictions:]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Compromise in a Tough Healthcare Reform Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/09/08/finding-compromise-in-a-tough-healthcare-reform-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/09/08/finding-compromise-in-a-tough-healthcare-reform-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a look at how provisions in healthcare reform legislation and a bill from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee would impact small business]]></description>
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		<title>Fruits of Whose Labor?</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2009/09/01/fruits-of-whose-labor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2009/09/01/fruits-of-whose-labor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Black entrepreneurs say tracking stimulus dollars will improve minority business participation in federally funded projects.]]></description>
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		<title>MED Week Attendees Connect With Bonding, Lending Sources</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/31/med-week-attendees-connect-with-bonding-lending-sources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/31/med-week-attendees-connect-with-bonding-lending-sources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minority Enterprise Development Week]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackenterprise.com/?p=39145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As most small business owners who attended the Minority Business Development Agency’s MED Week knows, in the end, it’s all about the money—access to contracting dollars and the capital required to perform. To conclude last week’s conference, entrepreneurs were given one-on-one and group opportunities to learn about government, traditional and alternative sources of financing. ]]></description>
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		<title>MBDA  Reports Findings to Improve Business Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/28/agency-reports-findings-to-improve-business-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/28/agency-reports-findings-to-improve-business-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Locke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minority Business Development Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Minority Supplier Development Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackenterprise.com/?p=39051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minority Business Development Agency hosted a summit where stakeholders made recommendations on how to improve minority business programs, overcome legal challenges to those programs, advocate effectively on businesses’ behalf, and help entrepreneurs address emerging markets. ]]></description>
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		<title>MED Week Begins With Government Contracting 101</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/27/med-week-begins-with-government-contracting-101/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/27/med-week-begins-with-government-contracting-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minority Business Development Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minority Enterprise Development Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In these tough economic times, federal contracting can provide the perfect opportunity for small businesses to grow and create jobs. To assist small businesses with this benefit, the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) kicked off this year’s Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week conference with a plenary session on winning government contracts.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Businesses Struggle Against Government Contract Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/21/small-businesses-struggle-against-government-contract-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/08/21/small-businesses-struggle-against-government-contract-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contract fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minority Business Development Agency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackenterprise.com/?p=38708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than two years ago, the African American owner of a southwestern engineering and construction services firm thought he’d finally hit pay dirt. After years spent seeking contracting opportunities with a major corporation—and a good word from an influential House committee chairman—he was chosen to serve as the subcontractor on a winning $1 billion bid for a project in Afghanistan. But the thrill was short-lived, he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.]]></description>
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		<title>Committee Weighs Options to Improve Access to Capital</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/07/28/committee-weighs-options-to-improve-access-to-capital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/07/28/committee-weighs-options-to-improve-access-to-capital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Committee on Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microloan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Congressional panel convened a hearing last week to explore ideas about how to improve the flow of capital to small businesses. Both Democrats and Republicans who sit on the House Committee on Small Business’ finance and tax subcommittee agree that the levels of commercial and Small Business Administration-guaranteed lending have fallen, exacerbating an already significant challenge for small- and minority-owned firms.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Takes Case for Healthcare Reform to the Airwaves</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/07/23/obama-takes-case-for-healthcare-reform-to-the-airwaves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/07/23/obama-takes-case-for-healthcare-reform-to-the-airwaves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama held his fourth primetime press conference to make the case to the American public on the urgency of changing the nation’s healthcare system. ]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Owners Speak Out on Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/07/14/small-business-owners-speak-out-on-healthcare-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/07/14/small-business-owners-speak-out-on-healthcare-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Small Business Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As every small business owner worth their bottom line has long known, the ability to offer a comprehensive benefits package is key to both attracting and retaining the best employees. But in the past few years alone, the rising cost of health insurance has left many entrepreneurs contemplating cutting health benefits or at a minimum, cutting back on their contributions, and they are anxious for Congress and the White House to enact meaningful reform.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Administration to Develop Action Plan for Minority Business</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/07/09/obama-administration-to-develop-action-plan-for-minority-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/07/09/obama-administration-to-develop-action-plan-for-minority-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans Recovery and Reinvestment Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minority business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama admininistration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackenterprise.com/?p=37316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Minority entrepreneurs continue to be stymied by lack of financing as well as public and private sector contracts. To remedy this situation, Obama administration officials met with a number of business owners develop initiatives to bolster their firms’ financial standing and provide access to opportunities offered through the president’s $787 billion recovery plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling the Black-White Wealth Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/wealth-for-life/2009/06/30/tackling-the-black-white-wealth-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/wealth-for-life/2009/06/30/tackling-the-black-white-wealth-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies convened a group of economic, community, and political leaders Monday to confront the persistent wealth gap between blacks and whites. The statistics cited by these experts were dire.]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Energy Legislation Survives Narrow House Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/29/historic-energy-legislation-survives-narrow-house-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/29/historic-energy-legislation-survives-narrow-house-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives passed an historic energy bill Friday night during a nail-biting vote. The outcome appeared tenuous almost until the last vote was counted. When the count reached 218, lawmakers began to cheer, and the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 narrowly passed with a vote of 219 to 212.]]></description>
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		<title>CBC’s Towns Leads Tense Questioning of Bernanke</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/26/cbc%e2%80%99s-towns-leads-tense-questioning-of-bernanke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/26/cbc%e2%80%99s-towns-leads-tense-questioning-of-bernanke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke spent an extremely tense session Thursday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding whether he pressured Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch last year. ]]></description>
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		<title>Activists Rally for a Public Health Insurance Option</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/06/26/activists-rally-for-a-public-health-insurance-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/06/26/activists-rally-for-a-public-health-insurance-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands from across the nation representing labor unions, community organizations, healthcare professions, churches, and other groups, came Capitol Hill Thursday to lobby  lawmakers on the urgency of passing  healthcare reform legislation this year. They are determined to make sure than any bill includes a public insurance option. High-profile politicians and entertainers like Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean and actress Edie Falco from The Sopranos participated in a massive rally in a park across from the U.S. Capitol. That action was followed by a town hall meeting and targeted state forums.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Pushes for Health and Energy Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/23/obama-pushes-for-health-and-energy-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/23/obama-pushes-for-health-and-energy-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks, President Barack Obama has received varying degrees of criticism and support on three major issues—Iran, energy, and healthcare reform. Today, at a White House press conference, he addressed each issue, making it clear that while he’s willing to be flexible, there are some areas in which he’s ultimately the decider, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Promotes the Importance of Fatherhood</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/06/20/obama-promotes-the-importance-of-fatherhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/06/20/obama-promotes-the-importance-of-fatherhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatherhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
President Barack Obama delivered a poignant and candid speech on the importance of fatherhood and personal responsibility before a group made up largely of young males and representatives of community mentoring organizations who attended a town hall meeting in the East Room of the White House on Friday.
The president and members of his staff spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Unveils Historic Financial Regulatory Reforms</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/18/obama-unveils-historic-financial-regulatory-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/18/obama-unveils-historic-financial-regulatory-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Financial Protection Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama revealed Wednesday a series of initiatives that he described as “the most sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression.” He outlined the administration’s audacious plan to protect consumers, investors and homebuyers while creating a new structure that would prevent future financial meltdowns.]]></description>
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		<title>White House Accelerates Stimulus Pace</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/06/09/white-house-accelerates-stimulus-pace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/06/09/white-house-accelerates-stimulus-pace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with mounting unemployment figures and criticisms that the administration’s economic stimulus plan is moving too slowly, President Barack Obama announced a “roadmap to recovery” on Monday that he says will create or save 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days.]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings to Begin July 13</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/06/09/sotomayor-poised-to-win-confirmation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/06/09/sotomayor-poised-to-win-confirmation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, spent three consecutive days having one-on-one meetings with key Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that must confirm her nomination before it goes before the full Senate.]]></description>
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		<title>Minority Businesses Eager for Stimulus Contracts</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/05/minority-businesses-eager-for-stimulus-contracts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2009/06/05/minority-businesses-eager-for-stimulus-contracts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden announced this week that in the 100-plus days since the administration’s $787 billion, two-year economic stimulus bill was signed by President Barack Obama, $126 billion has been disbursed--and it’s just the beginning of great things to come. In the second hundred days, he said, Americans will begin to really see the stimulus bill at work in their communities.]]></description>
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		<title>SBA Celebrates National Small Business Week</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/05/19/sba-celebrates-national-small-business-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/05/19/sba-celebrates-national-small-business-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America's Recovery Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each year the Small Business Administration hosts “National Small Business Week,” a three-day conference in Washington, DC, to honor the hard work and perseverance of small business owners from around the country, highlight lenders and large corporate sponsors, and toot its own horn. ]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Hearing Focuses on Credit Availability</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/05/14/senate-hearing-focuses-on-credit-availability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/2009/05/14/senate-hearing-focuses-on-credit-availability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For several years, small businesses have become increasingly reliant on credit cards as a major source of financing for purchases large and small and sometimes even to keep their doors open. This trend, exacerbated by the current economic crisis felt around the world, has had a trickle down effect from banks to business, as borrowers become less creditworthy and banks tighten their lending criteria to protect their already stressed balance sheets. ]]></description>
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		<title>House Passes Credit Card Bill of Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/30/house-passes-credit-card-bill-of-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/30/house-passes-credit-card-bill-of-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit cards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 637, the Credit Card Bill of Rights, by a margin of 357 to 70. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sojourner Truth Celebrated With a Bust at the Capitol</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/2009/04/28/sojourner-truth-celebrated-with-a-bust-in-the-capitol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/2009/04/28/sojourner-truth-celebrated-with-a-bust-in-the-capitol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Power Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sojourner Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people -- mostly women, a majority of them African American — packed the Capitol Visitors Center’s Emancipation Hall today to witness the unveiling of a bronze bust of Sojourner Truth, former slave, abolitionist and suffragette.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Presses for Credit Card Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/23/obama-presses-for-credit-card-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/23/obama-presses-for-credit-card-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Steele]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama met with top executives from 14 credit card companies today at the White House and urged them to adopt more consumer friendly practices.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Promotes Tax Cuts Against Backdrop of Protests</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/04/16/obama-promotes-tax-cuts-against-backdrop-of-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/04/16/obama-promotes-tax-cuts-against-backdrop-of-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KDM & Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama marked this year’s tax filing deadline at a White House event to promote the tax cuts included in the stimulus bill. While the president addressed reporters in the Old Executive Office Building, a few hundred protestors across the street braved pouring rain and slippery mud to participate in one of the many tea party protests taking place around the country. “We’ve passed a broad and sweeping tax cut for 95% of American workers. This tax cut was a core focus of my campaign, it was a core component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and it is the most progressive tax cut in American history,” Obama said. “And, starting April 1st, Americans saw this tax cut in the extra money that they took home with each paycheck.”]]></description>
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		<title>Glimmers of Hope for Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/04/14/glimmers-of-hope-for-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/04/14/glimmers-of-hope-for-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama today took center stage to provide a status report on measures his administration has taken to deal with the nation’s fragile economy.
The speech was filled with optimism, and encouragement, and was also a challenge to those who had criticized him for not doing enough.
"There is no doubt that times are still tough.," [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeowners Urged to Refinance While Rates Low</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/10/homeowners-urged-to-refinance-while-rates-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/10/homeowners-urged-to-refinance-while-rates-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama hailed his administration’s efforts to help homeowners avoid foreclosure during a housing refinance roundtable that he hosted at the White House April 9. He also urged the millions of homeowners who are eligible for the federal program he launched in March to take advantage of near-record low mortgage rates.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing for SBA Chief</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/01/senate-holds-confirmation-hearing-for-sba-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/04/01/senate-holds-confirmation-hearing-for-sba-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Gordon Mills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As confirmation hearings go, few -- if any -- of President Barack Obama’s picks have received as warm and bipartisan a welcome as the one his choice to head the Small Business Administration, Karen Gordon Mills, got today from the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
By all accounts from both Republicans and Democrats who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBC Hosts TARP/TALF Access Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/31/cbc-hosts-tarptalf-access-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/31/cbc-hosts-tarptalf-access-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke participated in a closed-door meeting yesterday with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and more than 300 minority and women entrepreneurs who’d eagerly accepted a last-minute invitation to attend the CBC’s TARP/TALF Access Summit. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Budget Battle Begins: House Committee Crafts Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/03/26/the-budget-battle-begins-house-committee-crafts-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/03/26/the-budget-battle-begins-house-committee-crafts-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Republican Road to Recovery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a long process that began at 10:30 am on Wednesday and finished at midnight, the House budget committee passed a resolution that closely resembles the one President Obama submitted to Congress earlier this month but calls for narrower deficits and less spending. ]]></description>
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		<title>National Urban League Report Finds Blacks Continue to Lag</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/wealth-for-life/2009/03/25/national-urban-league-report-finds-blacks-continue-to-lag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/wealth-for-life/2009/03/25/national-urban-league-report-finds-blacks-continue-to-lag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Urban League]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed; three ties more likely to live in poverty; and more than six times as likely to be incarcerated, according to the National Urban League’s annual “State of Black America” report.
The report, released today, examines the socio-economic differences between blacks and whites in such areas as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Passes Greed Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/19/house-to-vote-on-greed-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/19/house-to-vote-on-greed-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 328-93 today to approve a bill that taxes bonuses such as ones awarded at American International Group Inc. that have drawn universal ire.
Ever since news broke a few days ago that insurance giant AIG, which received more than $180 billion in TARP funds, paid $165 million in bonuses to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Maxine Waters Under Scrutiny Over Bank Ties</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/13/rep-maxine-waters-under-scrutiny-over-bank-ties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/13/rep-maxine-waters-under-scrutiny-over-bank-ties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxine Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[California Rep. Maxine Waters, a member of the House financial services committee and the Congressional Black Caucus, has come under fire this week for allegedly using her influence to help OneUnited Bank, an institution in which she and her husband have held a financial interest, receive bailout funds. Until early last year, the congresswoman’s husband, Stanley Williams, served on the bank’s board and still owns stock in it.]]></description>
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		<title>Top Discussion: Economic Recovery Implementation</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/03/12/top-discussion-economic-recovery-implementation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/03/12/top-discussion-economic-recovery-implementation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be a hot topic of discussion today at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden are hosting a White House conference at which governors and other state officials will share ideas and best practices for implementation of the legislation. There also will be presentations by cabinet secretaries and administration officials. ]]></description>
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		<title>RNC Chairman Has Difficult First Month</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/10/rnc-chairman-has-difficult-first-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/03/10/rnc-chairman-has-difficult-first-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Steele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Steele’s tenure as the new—and first African American—chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) has gotten off to quite the rocky start. Although he’s been in office a little over one month, there have already been calls for his resignation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Holds First Meeting with Black Lawmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/02/27/obama-holds-first-meeting-with-black-lawmakers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/02/27/obama-holds-first-meeting-with-black-lawmakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Clyburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Burris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) held its first meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama on Thursday. Most of the group’s 42 members were in attendance, with the noticeable exception of Sen. Roland Burris, of llinois, who reportedly had to stay behind at the Capitol to vote on a bill giving the District of Columbia a vote in the House.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Vows &#8216;We Will Rebuild&#8217; America</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/02/24/obama-to-discuss-economy-in-speech-to-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/02/24/obama-to-discuss-economy-in-speech-to-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress. While it was not technically be a State of the Union address, because he is still so new to office, it had many of the same characteristics. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Lends Cities A Helping Hand, Warns Against Waste</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/02/23/obama-lends-cities-a-helping-hand-warns-against-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/02/23/obama-lends-cities-a-helping-hand-warns-against-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, the nation’s mayors may feel the hardest hit by the current state of the economy. As President Barack Obama told 85 of them who gathered at the White House Friday, they are often forced to make some of the most difficult choices during an economic crisis, such as whether to raise taxes, close schools, or cut back on essential services. For them, the $787 billion economic stimulus package is an opportunity to not only save vital programs and services, but to also attract new business and jump-start projects that have fallen by the wayside due to lack of funding.]]></description>
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		<title>Black Congressman to Run for Alabama Governor</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/02/11/black-congressman-to-run-for-alabama-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/02/11/black-congressman-to-run-for-alabama-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auburn University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D’Linell Finley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Davis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let it never be said that Rep. Artur Davis isn’t up for a challenge. The three-term congressman recently announced plans to run for governor of Alabama, making him the first Democrat to formally throw his hat into the ring for the 2010 election.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Green-Collar Jobs Save the Economy?</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/being-green/entrepreneurs-being-green/2009/02/05/can-green-collar-jobs-save-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/being-green/entrepreneurs-being-green/2009/02/05/can-green-collar-jobs-save-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs BEing Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BEing Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Green Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not often that environmentalists and labor groups see eye to eye. But the nation’s economic freefall has brought the two groups together to encourage lawmakers to enact policies that will build a green economy and create jobs that uphold strong labor standards.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Committee Seeks Ways to Stimulate Small Business</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/02/02/senate-committee-seeks-ways-to-stimulate-small-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-news/2009/02/02/senate-committee-seeks-ways-to-stimulate-small-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Landrieu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Small and minority business owners are frustrated, and understandably so. Since the nation’s economy first began its downward spiral, they’ve been forced to stand on the sidelines while the federal government has spent billions of dollars saving big businesses and banks.]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Steele Elected RNC&#8217;s First Black Chairman</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/01/30/michael-steele-elected-rncs-first-black-chairman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/01/30/michael-steele-elected-rncs-first-black-chairman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Steele]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele won the Republican National Committee chairman’s race, becoming the first African American to lead the party. ]]></description>
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		<title>Is the RNC Ready to Elect Its First Black Chair?</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/01/28/is-the-rnc-ready-to-elect-its-first-black-chair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2009/01/28/is-the-rnc-ready-to-elect-its-first-black-chair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Blackwell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[0128_gop-logoThis week, 168 Republican National Committee members will cast votes to elect a new chairman. The election will take place during a period in which the Grand Old Party is feeling, well, not so grand, in the aftermath of two brutal election cycles that pushed it into the minority and out of the White House.]]></description>
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		<title>Ready for Day One</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/20/ready-for-day-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/20/ready-for-day-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immediately following President Barack Obama’s formal swearing in, some of his aides made their way to the White House to begin laying the groundwork for Day One. Although Obama must spend the rest of the day being feted, he has already scheduled Wednesday meetings with both his economic and national security teams. There is no time to waste and as we saw with his transition, Obama will hit the ground running. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Sworn In as President of the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/20/obama-sworn-in-as-president-of-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/20/obama-sworn-in-as-president-of-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was sworn into office as the 44th president of the United States and the first African American president.]]></description>
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		<title>A Woman With a Cause: Reparations</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/19/a-woman-with-a-cause-reparations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/19/a-woman-with-a-cause-reparations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inauguration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely, the community mayor of Harlem, New York, is clearly a woman on a mission, and that mission is reparations to African Americans for slavery.]]></description>
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		<title>The World Awaits No. 44</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/19/the-world-awaits-no-44/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/19/the-world-awaits-no-44/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world waits for Barack Obama inauguration.]]></description>
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		<title>BE Publisher Reflects on Obama-King Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/19/be-publisher-reflects-on-obama-king-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/19/be-publisher-reflects-on-obama-king-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earl G. Graves Sr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity sightings in Washington, DC, are nothing new these days but still, it hasn’t diminished the excitement the city’s residents and visitors feel when they spot someone who, much like the president-elect, has inspired them and encouraged the idea of thinking big. This was the case earlier today when Black Enterprise chairman, founder, and publisher Earl G. Graves Sr., visited the National Mall to be interviewed by CNN. “To me, you’re a star,” cried one young enthusiast.

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		<title>Finding Inspiration in a New President</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/19/finding-inspiration-in-a-new-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/19/finding-inspiration-in-a-new-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre Young]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ever since President-elect Barack Obama began to capture the nation’s attention, he has been cited as a role model for young black males.
Andre Young, an eighth-grader from Atlanta, Georgia, certainly views him that way. Since Nov. 4, the 13-year-old has been inspired by Obama to think before he acts and increase his focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBCF and the People&#8217;s Inauguration Project</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/18/cbcf-and-the-peoples-inaugruation-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earl Stafford]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sylvester Charles Williams, 100, flew to Washington, DC, to celebrate Obama’s inauguration at the invitation of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Earl Stafford's $1.6 million People Inauguration Project.
Williams, a native of New Orleans who worked on the railroads in the mail and baggage department, is not used to traveling the friendly skies. Indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices From Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/18/voices-from-the-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Continuing a Family Tradition
Ever since President-elect Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus, North Carolina resident Faye Scotten had a feeling he would win the big prize.
Then, following his Super Tuesday sweep, she was certain. Today at the "We Are One" inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, smiling from ear to ear, she said, “I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Nominee Faces Confirmation Fight</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2009/01/12/attorney-general-nominee-faces-confirmation-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats are bracing for a contentious confirmation hearing on Jan. 15 when Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder will take his place in the hot seat before the Senate Judiciary Committee.]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Now in Session—Without an Obama Replacement</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-blogs/2009/01/06/congress-now-in-session%e2%80%94without-an-obama-replacement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Rush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Black Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Meeks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As returning and newly elected lawmakers in both chambers of Congress were formally sworn into office, there was much celebration  and controversy on Capitol Hill. ]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Governor’s Scandal Puts Senate Seat in Jeopardy</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2008/12/11/illinois-governor%e2%80%99s-scandal-puts-senate-seat-in-jeopardy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Mezey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Dec. 2, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were charged with allegedly conspiring to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. A 76-page affidavit also alleges that Blagojevich was caught in a number of profanity-laced wire-tapped conversations trying to obtain a perks and professional positions for himself and his wife.

Although the scandal has forced Obama’s team to off topic for a couple of days, it doesn’t appear to pose any serious threat to what has so far been a smooth and successful transition to the White House.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Names Richardson Commerce Chief</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/white-house/white-house-news/2008/12/03/obama-names-richardson-as-commerce-chief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama announced the nomination of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his commerce secretary at a Chicago news conference this morning. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Introduces National Security Team</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/politics-news/2008/12/01/obama-names-sen-clinton-secretary-of-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama nominated former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state during a news conference today in Chicago.
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		<title>Obama Transition Picking Up Speed</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/politics/2008/11/26/obama-transition-picking-up-speed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many remarkable firsts that President-elect Barack Obama can lay claim to during the course of his political career, the one he’d probably gladly do without is becoming the first president to inherit a formidable trinity of two wars and a financial crisis of global epic proportions. But as a man known to enjoy a good game of poker, he clearly understands he must play the hand that’s been dealt him. According to many experts, Obama is doing a good job so far as he transitions to power and a majority of Americans agree. In an ABC News poll, 67% of those surveyed said they believe Obama is managing his transition well.]]></description>
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