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Mixing the Right Ingredients for Growth

Operations are humming at the 56,000-square-foot Norwalk, Ohio, bakery. The facility’s 160 employees, nearly all wearing bouffant caps and what appear to be white lab coats, toil alongside large mixing, baking, and packaging machinery. Elaborate conveyers prepare, mix, bake, and pack plain, seeded, and double-cut hamburger buns at a rate of roughly 4,000 dozen per hour.

50 Best Colleges for African Americans

Attending college is a rebirth of sorts. You’re smart, ambitious, young, and for the first time in your life, you get to do things your way. Heather Booker’s chapter in...

Health Coverage After Job Loss

When Byron Wesson of Dayton, Ohio, lost his job as a manufacturing engineer at Delphi Corp. after the automotive parts supplier outsourced Wesson’s position to a plant in Mexico, he joined 1.3 million people left unemployed last year as a result of layoffs. He also joined 46 million Americans struggling without health insurance. Currently residing in Dallas, his family gets by with a discount drug card from the neighborhood pharmacy, free health clinics, and, if necessary, the county hospital. “In the back of my mind, I know we’re going to have to do something,” says 47-year-old Wesson. “We’re on borrowed time.”

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