Eyes On The Enterprise
Government Is Big Business: What Has Been Your Experience Lately?
With the 2012 Presidential Election in full campaign mode, the central theme among candidates is jobs, and what and how the next president should get more Americans back to work — what should be done to get the economy healthy again.
What about the perennial issue of how government functions, period?
During The 2012 Presidential Election, The Public Can Just Say “No”
It is time for the public to say “No.” No, to the notion that we have become a society who would rather be entertained than informed as we go about the business of governing. No, to the sensationalism that has replaced rationalism in its power of influence when it comes to our collective decision-making process in selecting our leaders.
Not to do so is to continue to allow the awesome power of the people, the public, to be minimized and debased. The stakes are much too high. The consequences are much too exacting.
- Janice S. Ellis Ph.D.'s blog
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The Influx Of India’s Students Into American Colleges Increases
Americans, it seems are not as intent as foreigners, when it comes to getting into a top-notch college. It could be that some of our most successful entrepreneurs — Bill Gates and Steven Jobs to name but a few — exceeded their wildest financial dreams without ever obtaining a college degree.
Racism Still Reigns On The Waterfront In New York City
If discrimination and racism still reign when it comes to hiring in certain industries in New York City, the supposedly symbol of America’s melting pot where different races and ethnicities “rub shoulders” on an hourly basis, then is there real hope that one day inclusiveness and equality will be a way of life in this country?
New York, New York, let’s spread the news…. But, what news? That as recently as yesterday, there was a public and blatant example, in perhaps the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, that shows racism stills runs rampant.
Minorities And Some Ethnic Groups Have Most To Lose If Social Security Fails
Social Security, the system millions of Americans have depended on for decades is in trouble. The implications are dire for the most needy among us — millions of minorities and ethnic groups on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder.
Obama's Jobs Bill: When Partisan Politics Trumps The Best Interests Of The People It Diminishes All Of America
Every major crisis this country has faced, at the end of the day, required a willingness of elected officials to sit around the table in earnest and work toward arriving at the best solution given the circumstance. Great leaders, whether found in the President, a Senator, or member of the House of Representatives, know firsthand that the pathway to achieving effective public policy when the stakes are very high, and the country is in a state of crisis, is compromise.
Illegal Immigration: The Price of Working In The United States
As the issue of illegal immigration persists as a deeply polarizing dispute in the United States, this political hot topic has been encumbered with skepticism rather than facts on the effects of undocumented workers in the country. While the true numbers of the financial impact of illegal immigrants are not definite, immigration, which includes undocumented workers and legal immigrants, is regarded as a net positive to the nation.
It is important to note that distinction between legal and illegal immigrants is difficult to accomplish for several reasons.
The Backdoor To The Clubhouse: Expanding Golf Opportunities To The Underprivileged
The First Tee is a national non-profit charitable organization that uses the game of golf to teach nine core values of life to young people. Their mission is positive youth development. Those nine core values are honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment. A game like golf, which requires successful players to embody these values is the perfect set up.
Contributions To America Across Race And Ethnicity
Most have no doubt heard the difference between “efficient” and “effective.” The former relates to people who do things right, while the latter is people who do the right things right. Efficient people do not necessarily get results — at least not the results that move an enterprise forward. Effective people, in short, create something that didn’t exist by taking a concept and moving it from non-existence into reality.
A Lack Of Work Challenges The Stereotypes Of Welfare
The stigma of welfare is a debilitating, empty experience where those in need of public assistance are left feeling like obtrusive, less than human, ill-equipped people. In a 2005 study, Eugenie Hildebrandt and Sheryl T. Kelber uncovered that 53 percent of women in work-based welfare programs felt sad and discouraged, 64 percent felt downhearted and blue, and over half of the subjects said they experienced depression while on welfare programs.
