Eyes on Enterprise: Racism in Corporate America - Importance of Diversity
Examining entrepreneurship, business development, wealth creation, money management, and risk taking, across all races and ethnicities.
March 8th, 2013
Written by Sheila Burke - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
COOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector tests to keep racists off his force.
Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the heels of a series of police scandals that for a few months left Coopertown with no police at...
March 6th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in Eyes On The Enterprise with 2 Comments
The sequester will result in job loss across, race, age, location, and socio-economic status.
Up to 2.14 million American jobs could be lost if the sequester proceeds uninterrupted by Congressional intervention. According to a recent economic impact report detailed at SecondtoNone.com 48,059 jobs in healthcare, 98,953 in construction, 473,250 in manufacturing and 617,449 federal jobs are at...
March 1st, 2013
Written by Erica Werner in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans and Democrats said this week that farmers should be allowed to hire foreign workers more easily as Congress reworks U.S. immigration laws. But there was some disagreement on how it should happen.
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing said the visa program that lets farmers hire foreign agricultural workers is so unwieldy it accounts for...
February 19th, 2013
Written by Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Over the past three decades in Mississippi, few people have matched Andy Mullins' expertise in education policies and practices.
Mullins, 65, will retire June 30 from most of his responsibilities at the University of Mississippi, where he's chief of staff to the chancellor, associate professor of education and liaison to the Legislature. He will continue working part-time...
February 15th, 2013
Written by Jake Coyle in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - Reginald Hudlin, director of films like "Boomerang" and "House Party," never expected to be going to the Oscars as a best-picture-nominated producer of a slavery-era spaghetti Western by Quentin Tarantino.
"I didn't think it was happening when it was happening," Hudlin says, laughing.
The wide-ranging career of the 51-year-old filmmaker has included a three-year stint as President...
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