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I (HEART) Income Inequality

Inland Empire News for April 2.002

Income Inequality – the idea that some people make a lot more than others has the liberals all “wee weed up” to quote that sage of language Sarah Palin. It is somehow mystifying and wrong to the liberal psyche that some people have billions while others – don’t. Some people …

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Inland manufacturing is in decline … slightly

Inland Empire News for April 2.004

Manufacturing in the Inland Empire is officially struggling. The region’s purchasing managers index in March was 49, according to data released today by the Institute of Applied Research & Policy Analysis at Cal State San Bernardino. That was the first time since August that the index was below 50, the …

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Cold weather hurts retail

Inland Empire News for April 2.003

National retail sales rose 3.6 percent for the week that ended Saturday compared with the previous week. That’s the good news. The bad news is year-to-year sales for the week that ended Saturday were up 0.6 percent, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain …

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Covered California tries to speed things up

Inland Empire Business News for April 1.002

A last-minute surge of enrollees in the Affordable Healthcare Act forced the closure of some options on www.CoveredCa.com., the website that is handling signups for the program in California. The action was taken so that people would be able to start the enrollment process before midnight Tuesday, when open-enrollment for …

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High-desert thermometer poised for a comeback

Inland Empire Business News for April 1.001

One of the Inland Empire’s strangest landmarks is about to be brought back to life. In Baker, the world’s largest thermometer is expected to glow again sometime this summer, three years after it fell into disrepair and went dark, according to a report originally published in The Press-Enterprise. The 134-foot …

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The rumors are true: California is an expensive place to do business

Inland Empire Business News March, 2014.003

So says the annual report by a Los Angeles real estate firm on the cost of doing business in the western United States. However, one economist says the issue is overstated. San Bernardino is among the 20 most expensive cities in the western United States in which to do business, …

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