Category: Women
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Successful Launch of the Women in Housing
The National Association of Women in Real Estate Businesses (NAWRB) in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Santa Ana District Office presented the Women in Housing Financial Fitness Road Show this month at the Lutron Experience Center in Irvine, CA. NAWRB’s Inaugural Women in Housing Financial Fitness Road Show is a first-of-its-kind, breakthrough…
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The 29th California Women’s Conference
The Color Guard by The Sunburst Youth Academy opened the 29th California Women’s Conference with an exciting show at the Long Beach Convention Center. Each year, the conference gathers talented performers, doctors, successful entrepreneurs, and many more to provide an unparalleled experience for attendees. From entertainment, to financial seminars and health talks, the conference had…
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The Dodd-Frank Primer
It is no doubt that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is the most comprehensive financial regulatory reform measure to be executed since The Great Depression. While the comprehensive bill consists of sixteen titles, with numerous provisions spelled out over thousands of pages, herein is an attempt to summarize key points, for…
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Policy Prescriptions to Assist Women Entrepreneurs
Does the name Alice Paul ring a bell? Alice Paul led the effort to give women the right to vote. She raised money for the cause, led a group of White House protesters known as the Silent Sentinels, was imprisoned three times, force-fed raw eggs when she staged a hunger strike, and kept the pressure…
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Diversity in the Housing Market
Diversity in the housing market is a broad topic, and one with many avenues to venture down. There is a range of buyers and sellers and there always will be. Further, there are an equal number of products for those same buyers/sellers as well. Over the last few years it went from homeowners to…
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New Program Offers Peer Support for Women
It has long been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. At City of Hope, researchers are implementing this concept of imitation—of making one thing similar to another—in a leading-edge approach to treating difficult cancers. City of Hope’s new chief of surgery and an enthusiastic researcher, Yuman Fong, M.D., has been developing a…
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Women-led Start-ups Increase in Latest Winners of Arch Grants
The 2014 winners of the St. Louis Arch Grants competition were announced today and reveal an increase in women-led start-ups. Of the 20 recipients of the $50,000 grants, 40 percent are women-led which is an increase from the previous year.
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Senate Banking Panel Approves Fannie, Freddie Wind-Down
A Senate panel passed legislation on Thursday that would wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and prevent taxpayers from financing another bailout, similar to the financial crisis in 2008. Introduced by Senators Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the bill sought to create a new government agency, the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation (FMIC).…
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NWBC Welcomes New Executive Director
Washington, DC. Today, the National Womens Business Council, NWBC, announced its new Executive Director: Amanda Brown. Amanda was most recently the National Political Director for Rock the Vote. She is a Forbes 2014 30-under-30 recipient and has previously served as an Advisor for Strategic Planning to the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “I believe that Amanda’s…
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Join the fight to give women's history a home
Today–as Mother’s Day approaches–take a few moments to help preserve the history of the unsung yet influential mothers and daughters who came before us and who significantly contributed to the growth of our nation. Tomorrow the House will vote on the first ever National Women’s History museum, so your action today could make a big…