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Four-Year College Degrees: Are They Still Relevant?
By Andrew Cober Think fast! What do these leading companies have in common (other than they all received payments from me in the past 12 months)? GooglePenguin Random HouseCostcoWhole FoodsHiltonAppleStarbucksNordstromHome DepotIBMBank of...
4 Strategies to Make Higher Education More Effective
One very serious reality unmasked by the COVID-19 pandemic is just how seriously broken some elements of our higher education and skills training systems really are today. Our March 2021 RoundTable session focused on the issues surrounding the widening gap...
Disrupt the Cycle of Chronic Fraud Victimization
The Fraud Landscape Financial scams and fraud are an ongoing and rapidly escalating problem. Approximately one out of every ten U.S. adults are victims of fraud each year, losing billions of dollars annually to criminals through a variety of scams, including natural...
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Our latest Roundtable session challenged us in a fun and interactive way to think differently about creativity in times of crisis, like a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, and social divides. Instead of our usual panel discussion with guest speakers, we were...
Top 3 Influences on American Optimism for the 2020’s
Here we are the beginning of a new decade, one that is already fraught with reasons to be concerned, and possibly pessimistic about the near future. In times like these, what is driving the new found American optimism that is beginning to be apparent one year into the...
10 Ways Businesses Can Take the Lead
Current Trends in Public Opinion Our national tracking shows more Americans see the country growing even further apart than we’ve seen in the last year. But, with the new administration and a new year, we also see hope and optimism at the highest level across the...
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Why Americans’ Growing Distrust in Civic Institutions is a Warning