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The Women’s Business Resource & Entrepreneurship Center and its sponsor, The Urban League of Greater New Orleans Proudly Congratulates our client:
Bissap Breeze, LLC (owners Esailama Artry-Diouf and Tyrone Henry)
Grand Prize Winners of the Flex Fund Business Pitch Competition
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USA Today: Obama urges Congress to create transportation jobs
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A nationwide wave of state laws intended to restrict voting rights has been compared
to the Jim Crow laws of the late 19th and early 20th century.
- “All we want is a small vote and a large count,” comes from a letter written to Alabama’s Democratic State Executive Committee as they plotted to revise the state constitution in 1901.
- "If a man doesn't have enough interest in his government to pay a dollar or two for the privilege of voting, he's not worth being a citizen", comes from an article entitled “Suffrage in the South, Part 1,” in the magazine, Survey Graphic, in 1940.
- "The first and most desired outcome is voter suppression ... to "promote confusion, emotionalism and frustration (among African Americans)”, comes from a memo written by a consultant to Maryland gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich in 2010. The consultant, Julius Henson, and Ehrlich campaign manager Paul Schurick, were charged with conspiring to use Election Day robocalls in an effort to suppress black voter turnout. Schurick was convicted earlier this year; Henson – who is African-American himself - is awaiting trial.
- "For those who are not a part of the machine ... the lack of patience with all this red tape, or just plain apathy, encouraged by disgust at the general situation keeps them away", comes from an article entitled “Suffrage in the South, Part 1,” in the magazine, Survey Graphic, in 1940.
Which of the following quotes about voting did you think
could have been said in the 21st century?
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Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added a net of 227,000 jobs in February, making it the 4th consecutive month that job growth exceeded 200,000. Private sector job growth (excludes government losses) was 233,000, indicating continued improvement in the U.S labor market, although there is a considerable ways to go to make up the roughly 10 million jobs needed to return to full employment (roughly 6%). The number of unemployed people remained unchanged at 12.8 million in February as the labor force participation rate increased slightly to 63.9%.
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What You Need to Know About the State of Urban Jobs!
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Agency Meeting with the Department of Education |
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To Be Equal #10
March 7, 2012
The State of Black America 2012: Occupy the Vote
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
“The single issue that arguably stands to have the greatest impact on the future of Black America in 2012 is the vote.”
- The State of Black America 2012
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The Facts About African American Unemployment Demand Targeted Employment Policies
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To Be Equal #8
February 23, 2012
State of Black America Town Hall – March 7th
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
“To demonstrate that this Congress is both morally and fiscally responsible, the time to act on job creation is now.”
- Members of the Congressional Black Caucus
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