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    Connecting students to employers

    December 20, 2006August 27, 2014

    If you want to retain more of your youth, you need to connect them with the community. How do you come up with ways to connect students with local businesses? Let’s ask the students! That is what happened at Binghamton University in New York, where a student-led group came up with “an impressive list of…

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    Rural women more likely to be entrepreneurs

    December 11, 2006August 27, 2014

    According to the Global Entrepreneruship Monitor in London: Women are driving enterprise in the rural economy and are almost twice as likely to set up their own businesses as those living in towns….“This isn’t just about baking pies and selling them,” said Rebecca Harding, executive director of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. “It is about solving rural…

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