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The Decline of Labor |
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After decades of growth, union membership in the United States has been declining steadily for the past 20 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total membership peaked at almost 18 million people in 1980. By last year, according to The Charlotte News & Observer, that figure had dropped to less than 16 million, just 13 percent of the country¡¯s workforce. |
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From Generosity to J |
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ÀúÀÚ | Darren Walker |
ÃâÆÇ»ç | Disruption Books |
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The Entrepreneurial |
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Several forces are converging to make this an unprecedented time to start a business. And that trend is already bearing fruit. Consider the fact that the number of the nation¡¯s smallest businesses, those which only employ their owners, increased by 2.2 million from 1997 to 2002, according to the Census Bureau. |
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The Crowdfunding Rev |
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ÀúÀÚ | Kevin Lawton ¿Ü |
ÃâÆÇ»ç | CreateSpace |
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Marketing to the "Tw |
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If you have sons and daughters between the ages of 8 and 14, you might still think of them as children. But for more and more businesses, they are neither children nor traditional teenagers; they’re tweeners. And tweeners are becoming one of the hottest consumer demographic clusters ?and a big opportunity for revenue growth. |
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