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President Obama traveled to Newton, Iowa today to visit Trinity Structural Towers, the former Maytag appliance factory that now houses a green manufacturing facility, which produces towers for wind energy...
It’s not news to say that we are living through challenging times: The worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. A credit crisis that has made that downturn worse. And...
The country’s economic quagmire has reached far beyond Wall Street to the hallowed halls of academe. Take for example recent news that Harvard University is planning “across-the-board†budget cuts. If the Ivy League school, which has a $36.9 billion endowment, is in trouble, imagine the situation at minority-serving institutions, whose endowments are a small fraction of Harvard’s.
When many black people think of jobs that create environmental efficiency, they often think of Buck Rogers and space-age technology. That misconception could potentially keep black workers out of the green-collar industry, which is predicted to be the largest employment wave the country has seen in decades.
Smart aspiring entrepreneurs—and new business owners who've taken their lumps and are willing to change their ways (my mom taught me that hard heads make soft behinds)—will make reading My Biggest Mistake...And How I Fixed It: Lessons From the Entrepreneurial Front Lines a top priority.
