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The Joint Economic Committee delivered sobering—yet unsurprising—statistics on black unemployment rates in a report titled “Understanding the Economy: Long-term Unemployment in the African American Community.â€
When Homer Bair and his partner, Susan Kreitman, conceptualized a T-shirt and screen-printing venture on a beach in Jamaica, they had little inkling of its potential for international success. They collaborated with a group of Caribbean artists and, in 1987 created Cooyah Clothing. But, despite its cultural origins, Cooyah was a hard sell in Jamaica. To help them break into the local market, Homer’s brother Nigel stepped in. What ensued was reminiscent of the biblical saga of Cain and Abel.
With Sen. Barack Obama being recognized as the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he can make history if he becomes our next president. Not only by being the nation’s first African American president, but he is also being referred to as potentially the first customer relationship management (CRM) president. You also may even consider him to be the first social media president based on his campaign’s savvy use of the Web.
In today’s market, high value growth companies with sustainable earnings are the best bets, according to Michael Manns, senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at Phoenix Investment Partners’ Engemann...
F. Douglass Lewis Jr., president of Washington, D.C.-based FDL Financial Services, is focused on U.S. companies that are breaking trends and making sound decisions in the face of international unrest...
