House Republicans are pushing legislation to block predatory lending protections for American soldiers, under pressure from the banking lobby.
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Big banks have had an ugly relationship with American soldiers lately
April 29th, 2015 | Source: HuffPo
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Americares disaster relief team in Nepal
April 25th, 2015 | Source: Americares
AmeriCares is responding to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal earlier today, causing buildings to collapse, setting off avalanches on Mount Everest and catapulting the region into chaos.
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Everyone Profits from the Return on Character
April 23rd, 2015 | Source: Strategy + Business
Veteran management guru Fred Kiel uses hard data to prove that soft factors like integrity, forgiveness, and compassion energize employees and customers — and deliver better returns.
It’s rare to find a business book, let alone one on leadership, that is well researched, well documented, well written, convincing, credible, and imbued with a voice that one grows to both trust and admire. Fred Kiel’s 200-pager, Return on Character: The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win, is a standout for at least three reasons.
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Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables
April 15th, 2015 | Source: Bloomberg
This is the beginning of the end.
The race for renewable energy has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there's no going back.
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New Social Progress Index from Michael Porter
April 11th, 2015 | Source: FSG Consulting
Michael E. Porter has announced the launch of the Social Progress Imperative, a new rigorous index rating the social performance of more than 50 countries. Developed with the AVINA, Rockefeller, and Skoll foundations, this is the first index to fully separate social indicators from economic ones. In examining data on basic needs, well-being, and opportunity it creates a global agenda for country level policy.
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Annotating Service GENIUS wants to mark up the entire Internet
April 9th, 2015 | Source: Fast Company
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Buying up the competition
March 24th, 2015 | Source: The Economist
The latest mobile merger deal is good news for shareholders—and bad news for everyone else
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The Middle Class Has Gotten Smaller In Every State Since 2000
March 20th, 2015 | Source: HuffPo
America’s middle class is shrinking in every state in America.
A new analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts' Stateline blog, shows that the percentage of middle-class households -- defined as those earning between 67 and 200 percent of a state’s median income -- dropped in every U.S. state between 2000 and 2013. Median income also fell in most states during that period.
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