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VIDEO: Interesting video interview on the Today show with Ann Curry about franchises. It features an interview with a Just Dogs Gourmet franchise owner and the painstaking process of finding money and buying a franchise.

Rieva Lesonsky, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, gives the best franchises, the superior franchise success rate, etc. Looks like this was two or more years ago. Entrepreneur's best franchise picks were:

#5 UPS

#4 Jackson Hewitt

#3 Quiznos

#2 Curves

#1 Subway

Great Harvest Bakery encourages its franchisees across 40 states to do their own thing. The hours are very long, but people who've acquired franchises of the upscale bakery chain tend to make a decent living and enjoy their work.

Wendy Kauffman of NPR radio's All Things Considered interviews a Great Harvest Bakery franchisee.

This is turning out to be a classic article to help the franchise buyer check their emotions at the door and to contemplate does this franchise that they so want to buy now make sense for them (or even cent$)

It doesn't look very likely that the Employee Free Choice Act will pass. The bill, which was passed by the House in March, would make it easier to organize unions. But it still has to clear the Senate. And then the president's almost certain veto. Janet Babin of Marketplace talks with Madeleine Brand about the proposed legislation and the implications of the bill.

When franchise owners band together and create independent franchisee associations, multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits ensue. BusinessWeek has put together a slideshow about 6 prominent independent franchisee associations and their lawsuits. (6 slides)

European Franchising magazine includes the official journal of the European Franchise Federation and contains news, features and articles related to master franchising in Europe.

It is both a physical magazine, printed quarterly, and a completely online. European Franchising magazine is published by franchise consultancy firm Franchise Development Services (FDS). FDS was founded in the UK 1981 and has since been helping companies around the world expand their businesses through franchising.

 Franchise workshops, classes that lay out the basics of selecting, buying, financing and running a franchise, are becoming more popular. The StartUp Journal looks into them.

Here's an NPR radio broadcast in audio stream with economists debating the negative ramifications of a minimum wage hike. A bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in nine years failed in the Senate last week. But in a number of states, fall ballot measures would raise the minimum wage above the federal level. Would low-wage workers be helped or harmed if these measures pass? Economists are divided.

Articles for franchise buyers and franchise entrepreneurs on legal, financial and basic franchise buying issues from the Wall Street Journal.

Franchise Magazine is a journal that is read by many franchisors and their staff that gives the pulse of the franchising industry.