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Home-based Businesses/Self-Employment

At Home Professional Magazine - for people working from home. Features include home-based business success stories, how to set up your home office, resources, opportunities and more.

Entrepreneur's Home Office Magazine - features articles on running your own small business or working for someone else from your home office.

Home Business Journal - presents articles for home business owners and links to government and small business Web sites.

Momsnetwork.com - offers tips and networking opportunities for women balancing family and professional obligations.

Working Solo Online - news, tips, resources, e-newsletter, links and other valuable information for solo business owners.

Minority/Disabled Business Ownership

Asian Enterprise - representing Asian American entrepreneurship and small businesses.

Minority Business Development Agency - offers four virtual centers focused on franchising, aquaculture, international trade and manufacturing.

Minority Business Entrepreneur - for and about minority and women business owners. Covers legislation, policy issues, financing and more.

Self-employment and Small Business Services for People with Disabilities - sponsored by the Office of Disability Employment Policy, this Web site provides an excellent multi-media listing of small business resources.

Business Planning

Biztalk - small and home business daily magazine aimed at entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their own companies.

Business Hotline-Online - books, audio and video tapes, trade directories and software for business owners.

Business Resource Center - advice on everything from business plans to financing options.

Entrepreneur Magazine - features daily news, chat rooms, message boards, interactive coursework and more.

Inc. Online - the web site for growing companies, including virtual consulting, article archives, technology information and more.

SCORE - free on-line business consultation from retired business executives. Also find out how to contact the SCORE chapter nearest you.

Small Business Administration - almost everything needed to prepare for business start-up.

Small Business News - offers solutions to the daily challenges of growing a business. Topics include management, finance, marketing, technology, health care and personnel.

Your Company - business publication targeted exclusively to small business owners.

Technical Questions/Professional Services

FindLaw - a small business legal center written for the layperson. Includes a legal guide for starting and running a small business.

IRS - download tax forms, view IRS publications and get advice from tax collectors themselves.

Lawyers.com - profiles of over 400,000 lawyers.

Quicken.com - answers to common tax questions, including IRA deductions.

Small Business Taxes and Management - find the latest information about tax laws affecting your small business.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - information regarding patents and trademarks.

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June 2009


Percentage of people with disabilities in the labor force:

  22.6%

Unemployment rate of persons with a     disability:

    14.3%

 

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