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Too Little Too Late For City Spending On Workers Cooperatives, Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
Too Little Too Late For City Spending On Workers Cooperatives, Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
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New York City spent $606.7 million in 2016 on Career Pathways, a national workforce development strategy designed to increase education, training, and learning opportunities for the current and emerging workforce. A small portion of that money has gone to worker cooperatives, a business entity that is worker-owned and worker-controlled. Female immigrant entrepreneurs have taken to the model. But the model's strength might prove to be its weakness.
http://alejandraoconnell.com/2017/12/27/too-little-too-l…ers-cooperatives/
Startup Elsewhere, Michaela Ross
Startup Elsewhere, Michaela Ross
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Immigrants have made outsized contributions to American innovation and entrepreneurship, but the headwinds they face in the U.S. are now driving them to return to their native countries to startup their tech companies.
U.S. immigrants make up only 13% of the country’s overall population, but they have filed over a quarter of the country’s global patent applications, won a third of America’s Nobel prizes in the sciences in the last hundred years and make up over half of all computer science Ph.D. students in U.S. universities. Immigrants also build businesses at twice the rate of native-born Americans, and over the …