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New GE Fellows Program at Massachusetts Maritime Academy Builds More Diverse Renewable Energy Workforce

Dianna Delling
January 11, 2023
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When GE moved its headquarters to Boston in 2016, it made a commitment to the state’s leaders and citizens. In a show of allegiance to its new community, the company pledged to donate, over several years, a total of $50 million in support of local schools, job training programs, and healthcare initiatives. That promise was fulfilled with flying colors this past November, when the GE Foundation announced a $1.5 million grant to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) to launch the new GE Fellows Program.

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Basic Income After Robots Take Our Jobs? That’s Not How Capitalism Works

Katharina Nieswandt
October 21, 2016

Katharina Nieswandt, a philosophy professor at Concordia University, wants to debunk the claim that technology or robotics will lead to mass unemployment. The reality, she argues, is that productivity will grow but leisure time won't.

 

 
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Dane Linn: Evolution at Work

Dane Linn Business Roundtable
August 21, 2014
As the old saying goes, everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. So it seems, sometimes, when it comes to the very real and persistent skills gap that drags down our entire economy. For those unaware of the term, the skills gap refers to the split between the kinds of skills that employers are looking for in their workers and those that job candidates actually possess.
 
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How to Introduce Entrepreneurship Within a Young Democracy

Tom Kadala Atc Inc
May 06, 2014
During a recent Charlie Rose interview, Christine Lagarde, the president of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), shared her views with a packed audience of international economists in Washington D.C. on how young democracies such as South Africa or Malaysia commonly have fragile dual economies operating in parallel, one run by the ‘haves’ or wealthy, while the other by the ‘have nots’ or the impoverished.
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