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

The so-called “free-market system” has created perverse incentives for business leaders to “take the money and run.” Propounding the myth that markets are self-regulating, opportunists mastered tactics to drive up short-term stock prices and apparent profitability, and they rewarded themselves with handsome bonuses for doing so. Their freedom to sk

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.

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.

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.

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.

economy can neither recover nor excel

full contribution to national prosperity.

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