Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
The most pressing problem is that today’s minorities—who are tomorrow’s employees and suppliers—are not getting the education they need to staff the workforce in the service/knowledge economy, or the help they need to fully participate in the entrepreneurial economy.
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
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.
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
new paradigm that will integrate and refocus the efforts of corporations, public-sector agencies, and support organizations. And we need strong leadership to ensure
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
full contribution to national prosperity.
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
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
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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.
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half of the population is unable to make its
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
These jobs required a literate workforce. Today, the most profitable enterprises are in the knowledge economy, where value is created through innovation, intellectual property, analysis, or special know-how.
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
Inadequate education is a problem in a country where wealth depends on success in the service/knowledge economy. In most of this country’s minority-dominated communities—inner cities, barrios, poor rural areas, and Indian reservations—only about half of today’s ninth graders will graduate from high school.