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As office-centric downtowns struggle, suburbs cater to the laptop crowd

As office-centric downtowns struggle, suburbs cater to the laptop crowd

Developers are adding outdoor co-working space — bocce ball, anyone? — to attract remote workers to stores and restaurants By Katherine Shaver via The Washington Post On a recent weekday afternoon at Northern Virginia’s Mosaic District, a nail salon was two-thirds full, diners in business casual were clustered around sidewalk tables and remote workers tapped […]

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The U.S. Economy Is in Serious Trouble if Latinx Founders Don’t Get More Funding. Here’s Why:

The U.S. Economy Is in Serious Trouble if Latinx Founders Don’t Get More Funding. Here’s Why:

By Arnobio Morelix Latinx founders are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America–but their businesses are struggling to scale. While the percentage of Americans running a business has stagnated at 6.2 percent over the past two decades, Latinx founders have rocketed from 6.5 percent of all entrepreneurs in 2001 to 15 percent as of 2019, making them […]

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Powell says the Fed will not hesitate to keep raising rates until inflation comes down

Powell says the Fed will not hesitate to keep raising rates until inflation comes down

By Jeff Cox via CNBC Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell emphasized his resolve to get inflation down, saying Tuesday he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level. “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral we won’t hesitate to do that,” the central bank leader told The Wall […]

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