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Overcoming Systemic Racism Through System Engineering

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Her assignment was to map out an expansion of Year Up from Boston to either Washington, D.C., The group found that if 15 percent of existing Black businesses could finance a single new employee, it would create US $55 billion in new economic activity. Boyea-Robinson still finds resistance to financing equity among bank loan officers.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. The program will fund interdisciplinary research in six key areas: resource development; uses; environmental impacts and climate change; global markets and finance; policy and regulatory reform; and geopolitical impacts.

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