Voices of Recovery: Jennifer

In this section of the Website I would like to include stories of economic recovery. These stories chronicle the "baby steps" of recovery:  one person  gets a job, one company adds a new employee, a manager extends the hours of their workers, online orders for your company increase.  No story is too small or insignificant.

In November, 2010  Jennifer was hired full time to work for a local bookstore - Copperfield books. This is a locally owned company with 8 stores in the area. Jennifer works 40 hours a week, gets a great discount on all books she buys and enjoys meeting the authors that come to the weekly book signings.

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Micro-Enterprise: An Exciting Idea for Job Creation

The  Women's Initiative for Self-Employment is one of the nation's largest micro-enterprise training and funding organizations. They have been providing a winning combination of training, mentoring and micro-loans for over 20 years to help low-income women start and grow their own businesses.

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"Voices of Reform - Egypt" : Karim

Karim is a Cairo-based businessman and the son of Egypt's former ambassador to Tokyo. For the last 10 years his father worked for the League of Arab States. Some of Karim's friends don't care about the protests because they are wealthy. Why affront a regime that outfits you in Burberry and Rolex? And if Mubarak falls -- so the conventional wisdom goes -- what would happen to their status? Last week Karim received a BlackBerry message mocking Egypt's elite. It was written for the nation's 20- and 30-somethings who drive BMWs, eat sushi on the Nile, and reference episodes of "Entourage."

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