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April 1, 2013 Edition
Focus on Banking & Finance

CEI loan fund seeks 'socially conscious' investors

James McCarthy

For 11 years, Saeed Saeed and his wife, Anaam Jabbir, ran a flourishing take-out restaurant in a suburb of Baghdad. They sold falafel, shawarma and other Iraqi fast foods.

  • Other
    Other

    March madness

    Carol Coultas

    It's one of those unhappy coincidences that I am inevitably trying to pull together my taxes at the same time I'm trying to update our family's FAFSA form.

  • Blease's new call center eyeing government clients

    Darren Fishell

    Technology was radically different when Heather Blease launched EnvisioNet's Brunswick call center in 1995. So was the business model.

  • Other
    Other

    Budget hearings progress, PL90 under fire

    Darren Fishell

    Legislators are scheduled to meet through April 5 to hear public testimony on Gov.

  • Focus on Banking & Finance
    Focus on Banking & Finance

    Financial industry wrestles with compliance costs

    Matt Dodge

    Terry Bishop says you know an industry is clamping down when your regulatory burden falls just short of that placed on sustained nuclear fission.

Today's Poll

Do you have a side hustle?
Poll Description

In the latest installment of our “Made in Maine” series, we visit the Gorham studio of textile designer Erin Flett, who has turned her after-hours basement side hustle into a well-known brand with a national wholesale network.

Nationwide, side hustlers started a record number of businesses during the pandemic. Today, a growing number of younger professionals are supplementing their income with a side job, as shown in a survey by Bankrate, the personal finance website. It found that 34% of Gen Zers (ages 18 to 28) have a side hustle, outpacing millennials (31%), Gen Xers (23%) and boomers (22%).

While some people can turn their side gigs into profitable businesses, others keep hustling their entire working lives –  or have neither the time nor the interest to do so. 

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