It reported Tuesday that the number of Hispanic-owned businesses in Utah jumped by 78 percent between 2002 and 2007 — and revenues rocketed up by almost 138 percent. Businesses owned by whites in Utah didn't do poorly, either. In fact, they had the second-fastest growth in the nation in that five-year period before the recession hit. That's according to a new Census report on estimates of business ownership by race, ethnicity and gender for the five-year period.
In 2002, it estimated that Hispanics owned 5,177 businesses in Utah. Five years later, it estimated that they owned 9,221. READ FULL STORY
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