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Hiring Former Offenders

ExactHire - Leadership

A study released by the Center of Economic and Policy Research in 2016 found that the economy loses out on roughly 2 million workers and approximately $80 million in gross domestic product (GDP) by not hiring justice involved job seekers. As a country, we need economic stability, especially now in an unstable global market.

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Gender inequality, as we can see, is a reality and not only in the developing countries.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, the U.S. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Dinesh’s grandfather developed complications between the checks and passed away. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2

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Name the Trade Rep, Mr. President

Harvard Business Review

Doing so would show that he places the highest priority on both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations — started in 2011 and slated to end this year — and the newly launched free trade negotiations between the US and EU which are scheduled (optimistically) to be completed before the 2016 election.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. in 2000 to 2.0%

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. And Lego just announced its intention to use 100% renewable energy by 2016.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

Then came 2016. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies.

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