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On the heels of National Small Business Week, entrepreneurs were treated to a day of sessions devoted to helping them identify, recruit, and train talent. While unemployment remains well under 4% and with nationally some 9 million job openings, companies from small to large, new to established, face workforce challenges. There are ways to fight the problem, executives were told Tuesday.

Small Business owners, entrepreneurs, and Workforce Development professionals will be headed to the RTI Holden Building Tuesday for a full day of collaboration. NC IDEA and the North Carolina Association of Workforce Development Boards are partnering to host the event, focused on tackling small business challenges and sharing best practices.

San Antonio is among six cities that have been selected for the Aspen Institute’s...

22.07.2021 Globale Plastikverschmutzung im Fokus Die gegenwärtigen Raten der globalen Plastikemissionen könnten Effekte auslösen, die wir nicht mehr rückgängig machen können, berichten Forschende aus Deutschland, Schweden und Norwegen in einer neuen Studie. Nach Ansicht der Autorinnen und Autoren ist die Plastikverschmutzung eine globale Bedrohung und Maßnahmen zur drastischen Reduzierung der Plastikemissionen in die Umwelt seien „die rationale politische A...

City Learning and Action Lab San Antonio, TX, one of the five cities the City Learning and Action Lab will work with to spur economic growth for Latino-owned businesses The City Learning and Action Lab has launched in five Latino-majority cities across the U.S.  On June 8, 2021, The Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program launched the 12-month City Learning and Action Lab in partnership with Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab and Christopher Gergen, the CEO of impact investmen...