Business Stories from March 11, 2011 (Change date)
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Microfinance struggles to restore its reputationMar 11, 2011 9:22 am - MUMBAI, India — Long heralded as a way to lift the downtrodden out of poverty, microfinance is under a cloud. The stories of lives being changed by a $27 microloan and p...
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Why some states aren’t using ‘rainy day’ fundsMar 14, 2011 11:41 am - BATON ROUGE, La. — While budget deficits threaten to cripple government services across the country, a handful of states with billions of dollars socked away in “rainy d...
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Lincolnshire's PaperShower.com expands line, sales outletsMar 14, 2011 11:41 am - Had a “paper shower” lately? Jim Bahcall of Buffalo Grove hopes you do, since his web business, PaperShower.com, offers a wet-and-dry cloth combination product to use if...
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Some relatives are safe, but Schaumburg woman still trying to reach others in JapanMar 11, 2011 10:49 pm - Miki Yonekura of Schaumburg was getting phone calls at 2 a.m. and then 3 a.m. Friday, but she figured it was just a wrong number. Then at 3:30 a.m., she decided to answe...
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