News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Immigrants drive most small-business start-ups

Marketplace trend evident here, but stats lacking

Published: 02.08.2007

Don't talk to Elaine Tran about the risks of starting her own business. It makes her laugh. "Not to me," she says. "It's not a big risk."

The 48-year-old owner of I-KO-I Beauty and Health Spa made her way to the United States more than 25 years ago, after crossing the South China Sea aboard a wooden boat.

The financial gamble and long days of running her business at 3161 N. Country Club Road for the past 13 years weren't as scary, says Tran, a native of Vietnam.

Experts say stories such as Tran's are changing the look of small businesses across this country.

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