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The Economics of Serving Low-Income Employees at Tax Time: Implications ​for Credit Unions

John Hoffmire, PhD Director of the Center on Business and Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business, Chairman, Progress Through Business

Thomas Harms, Director, Progress Through Business

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Progress is the constant replacing of the best there is with something still better!— Edward

2020-10-29T14:22:39-05:00

For the Wealthy, Tax it or Give it Away: If Those are the Choices, Which is it?

I know that many will say: “But the choice is not whether wealth should be taxed or given way.” Stay with me for a few paragraphs.

In 2006, Warren Buffet made the decision to gradually give away all of his Berkshire Hathaway stock, amounting to billions of dollars. Buffet says, “More than 99 percent of my

2020-10-29T14:26:36-05:00

Benefits of Cash Payments Outweigh Limitations in Alleviating Poverty

In the fight against poverty, few issues are more contentious than the allocation of the billions of dollars set aside to help those in need. Whether the money comes from private donations or state tax revenues, arguments over how to use the monies arise both in domestic and international politics. This debate usually focuses on balancing

2020-11-11T11:12:34-06:00

Gift puts Utah’s Legacy of Impact Investing, Salt Lake City on the Map

James Lee Sorenson donates $13 million to the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah for the creation of the James Lee Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)

Philanthropy in Utah took a large step on Jan. 29 when the business school at the

2020-10-29T14:46:01-05:00

A Survivor’s Story

Survivors from the world of drug addiction and the dark world of sex trafficking and violence often have heart-wrenching stories; girls and women with so much potential, lost to the pain and suffering of sexual exploitation. The hope in these stories can be found in the resiliency of survivors and their ability to create meaningful

2020-10-29T14:53:04-05:00

The Democratization of Fund and Equity Raising

From the year 2009 through 2012, “crowdfunding,” a new type of fundraising, grew 91 percent in its worldwide funding volume. Over those four years,its funding volume increased from $530 million to $2.8 billion. What is this fast-growing fundraising phenomenon? It involves a combination of the Internet and social networking to attract a wide variety of interested donors and investors to

2020-10-29T15:25:04-05:00

Smart Development for Africa: Building Entrepreneurship at MEST

As Africa awakes to its enormous promises and confronts the challenges that it must surmount, the recent World Economic Forum Africa Summit in 2013 reflected on how Africa’s entrepreneurs can be transformed into global champions.

The key points that emerged were that, though entrepreneurship is growing rapidly in Africa, there are significant difficulties and barriers that entrepreneurs must confront. Lack of access

2022-07-05T09:37:09-05:00

A Road Less Traveled: Rotarians, community in Kenya work together to drive change

The road to Mosiro is long, uncertain and difficult to navigate in many ways. Sometimes you will cross rifts in the road that could have been called valleys; some places the track is washed out and you must detour through the savanna.

Life is also hard on the savannas of Kenya for the Maasai people. Life was made many

2022-07-05T09:45:36-05:00

Fellowship in Honor of President Kim Clark at Oxford

“With power comes responsibility – it is as simple as that” said Professor Peter Tufano as he welcomed visitors to a discussion about business leadership and responsibility to celebrate the creation of the Kim B. Clark Fellowship in Responsible Leadership at Saїd Business School at Oxford University on September 7th. “Business organisations have power. How should

2022-07-05T09:47:52-05:00

Kenya, Violence and Mobile Technology

While there has been much written about the terrible events that took place at the Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, there has been less said about the progress made in Kenya to overcome home-grown political violence. On Dec. 27, 2007, Kenya’s incumbent President Mwai Kibaki claimed victory in an election amid cries of scandal and

2022-07-05T09:45:36-05:00

A Tale of Two Cities in Northern Mexico: One With A Murderous History, One Fairly Calm

This is a tale of two development models used by northern Mexican cities. Both of them are located in the state of Chihuahua; one of them can be considered a success and the other, although it had a recent turnaround, has seen a bitter and brutal chapter of its history unfold during the last decade.

2022-07-05T09:46:23-05:00
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