Mills Scofield

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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. You will be excited and optimistic about the passion, compassion, thought, analysis, and implementation of this generation.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. The name scribbled in the “From” section of the label was not one I recognized.

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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure

Mills Scofield

Take, for instance, payday lenders: a study by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development found that in 2011 “the burden of repaying [payday loans] resulted in $774 million in lost consumer spending and 14,000 job losses. [1] Grant funding, to be sure, is an option, but an unreliable one at that.