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Entrepreneurs Key to Jump-starting Milwaukee Area's Economic Rebirth
April 14, 2013 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An inspiring examination of the Milwaukee region's strengths, weaknesses and prospects for growth in today's rapidly evolving economy, as conducted by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business reporter Rick Romell in a six-month Marquette Law School fellowship established by the Sheldon B. Lubar Fund for Public Policy Research. In four sections, spread over the month, this being the first, demand the attention of any community effort to grow an effectiver rechnology-based economy. A MUST mead
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Building a Better Tech School
April 13, 2013 | New York Times
The sparkling, sprawling new campus on Roosevelt Island filled with gee-whiz technology — still just ink on paper. The thousands of students and staff, the transformative effect on the city’s economy, the integration with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology — those all remain in the future, too.
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SEC Upbraided for Dawdling on JOBS Act Enabling Rules
April 12, 2013 | The Hill
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) drew fire Thursday from a key House Republican who complained that the regulator is moving too slowly to impose congressionally mandated rules designed to help small businesses grow.
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Heath Insurance Becoming a Rare Work Benefit
April 14, 2013 | Pittsburgh Post Gazette
For decades, employer-provided health insurance has been commonplace, but that trend is reversing. In Pennsylvania and every other state in the nation, a smaller share of people get their health insurance through an employer than did in 2000, according to a study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J.
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A Missionary’s Quest to Remake Motor City
April 14, 2013 | New York Times
The best way to experience all that is strange and a little otherworldly about downtown Detroit is to walk the streets around 5 p.m. on a weekday. At that hour, you’ll notice not just the peculiarity of what is around you. It is just one small sign of how far Detroit’s fortunes have fallen. Dan Gilbert would like to change that.
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