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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
million residents at its height, and 9th-century Baghdad vie for the title of the world’s largest city prior to 19th-century London. Today, one useful way to think about cities is to divide them into three fluid (and sometime overlapping)... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
people facing a variety of other hardship—what do they ultimately want for themselves? What do we want for ourselves? And I think the answer is more than just not poverty or not foster care. It's about being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
East. “At Endeavor, we believe that real economic change and growth — not just poverty alleviation — happen through entrepreneurs who are doing innovative things in their industry, country, or even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
that the environment is deteriorating, it will exacerbate all other problems," said a respondent. Opined another, "Problems that have no owners - the environment and wealth disparities - will get worse, not... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
people while visiting 34 diverse countries—places without available medical care, where corruption and poverty have ruled, and where armed people are part of the daily scene.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Our class has lived and worked in a prolonged period of unprecedented economic growth, resulting in great wealth for our nation and opportunities for individual prosperity. Our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
education curriculum into local schools, many of them in underprivileged and underserved communities. Overall, more than half the schools Pine Mountain serves fall below the poverty line, View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
entered middle school, kindergarten, and preschool. "Now I've also got a little more time to write," she adds. Shuster-Haynes says her experiences in Nepal have helped shift her perspectives on wealth as... View Details