By Dennis Shaughnessy One of the hottest trends in the tech world these days are technologies and companies that provide the latest non-cash payment systems for consumers and retailers, including restaurants and grocery stores in urban communities. The market for credit and debit cards is in excess of $40 billion Read more…
By Charlotte Fall In Kenyan slums, chronic unemployment leaves 68% of youth without a stable income. Young men and women are forced to find incomes by selling their bodies, stealing, and participating in terrorist activities with Al-Shabaab for pay. LivelyHoods is a social enterprise that recruits youth to train and Read more…
By Mason Fitzpatrick There are 15 million United States households suffering from food insecurity. Rates of childhood obesity have approximately tripled since 1970. There are just over 2 million farms in the country, but the average agricultural worker and owner is seeing their economic standing decline year by year, even Read more…
By Kayla Vestergaard Although Myanmar is emerging as one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies, Burmese women are struggling to gain wealth at the pace of men because of social norms of domesticity. As of 2014, only 50% of working age women (15+ years) were in the labor force, compared Read more…
By Kayla Vestergaard “Aim higher,” Mr. Rauch began. With open arms and an easy laugh, the retired president of Trader Joe’s and founder of the low-income serving supermarket Daily Table, opened his February 26th talk with the time he was invited to make the first pitch at a Cubs game. Read more…
By Isabell Spigel Millions of women around the world are desperate for better lives. They are desperate to escape war-torn countries, desperate for opportunity and freedom to change their own livelihoods, and desperate to break the cycle of poverty they often come from. So desperate that they often find themselves Read more…