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“That’s what the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the University of Houston Small Business Development Center hope their free 12-week, Spanish-language program for budding entrepreneurs will accomplish.
According to a recent nationwide study of immigrant entrepreneurship by New York’s Center for an Urban Future, the language barrier was an important obstacle in the way of increased business ownership in Houston.
“A number of services that immigrant business owners might find useful are still only available in English, even though Hispanics now make up nearly 40 percent of Houston’s population and Asians were the city’s fastest growing group during the ’90s,” the study found.”
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