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"You'd think there's a lot of jobs here but they're not.'

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Posted on October 12, 2008 - 6:55am at Stone Soup Station
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Sorta deflates the old argument that all one need to do is to "pull oneself up by the bootstraps".....

Nashville job engine sputters
For newcomers hunting employment, it's become a city of broken dreams

By NAOMI SNYDER • Staff Writer • October 12, 2008

Recession on their Minds

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Posted on February 12, 2008 - 6:49pm at The Entrepreneurial Mind
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The National Federation of Independent Business Index of Small Business Optimism fell 2.8 points in January to 91.8 (1986=100), the lowest reading since January 1991.

But some of the underlying numbers related to employment are not as weak as one would expect to see when optimism is so low.

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