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Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses Deserve Impact Investing and Financial Leverage Now, Not Later
In late March, it was clear that the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic shutdown would tri
gger a small business crisis., As the pandemic forces us all to change the way we live and the way we work, perhaps we now have the opportunity to broadly adopt some of the great models created by innovators across philanthropy and finance., Let’s scale financial institutions committed to small businesses by providing them equity infusions and access to liquidity. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) held out hope, but it failed on many levels for MWBEs and the populations they represent.
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'The Pill' Paved Way For Women's Entry Into The Upper Echelons Of America's Labor Force, Authors Argue In Latest Issue Of The Milken Institute Review
LOS ANGELES — It has been called the greatest science and technology advance of the 20th century. It
has been credited with the resurgence of feminism in the 1960s, and the social and sexual revolution of the 1970s.
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Data Consortium Could Reduce Barriers for Ethnic- and Women-owned Businesses
Reliable market data — including demographic and financial information — are essential to tapping th
e economic opportunities in America′s low-income communities and inner cities, according to a report by the Milken Institute.
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The battle for the hearts and lungs of billions of women is raging in emerging markets, a leading analyst explains in the latest Milken Institute review
LOS ANGELES -- Demographer Brad Edmondson outlines what's at stake in Big Tobacco’s drive to expand
sales outside the affluent West. "All over the developing world,
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