Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream

Thus the issue of minority inclusion is not about historically poor Americans becoming better off at the expense of the rich: it is about all Americans becoming progressively worse off than they were at the turn of the millennium.

We urgently need a National Industrial Strategy that sustains the key industries of today and fledges the growth industries of tomorrow. The strategy needs to be inclusive, forward-thinking, and impactful in the short run—and sustainable in the long run.

well-thought-out plan for recovery and progress, a plan that is not distorted by lobbyists sacrificing the common good to favor special interests. As a nation, we will have to realign public policy, corporate strategy, and nongovernmental support in order to embark on a trajectory that holds more promise for our economic futures. But before we prop

Let’s be sure we understand what this terminology actually means. Up until a couple hundred years ago, the United States had a primarily agricultural economy, consisting of hundreds of thousands of farms employing farmhands. After the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing surpassed agriculture as the principal source of revenue and jobs in the U.S.

A community of people who do not see how they can get ahead in life and have given up trying is a drain on the economic system; the larger the community, the greater the negative consequences. So the demographic shift brings with it a simmering problem that is growing in magnitude each day.

half of the population is unable to make its

The national problem is the steady decline of national competitive advantage in the face of increasingly fierce competition from rival economies in Asia and Europe.

This situation hurts minorities because it destines all but a few of them to remain an economic underclass; it hurts the nation because the

• inadequate education; • difficulties in securing funding for their businesses; and • limited access to mainstream supply chain opportunities. The