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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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The morning was like any other , the monotony of life so quickly forgotten: wake up, shower, coffee, drive to work, rinse, repeat. After the exchange of her license and registration, another undercover vehicle pulled up. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo.

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Kelp Food Is Making Waves in Restaurants and Supermarkets—and Helping Conservation Efforts

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Mostly, though, I think about how we will all lose the sea if we don’t roll up our sleeves and figure out how to save it. As the boat picks up speed, I blink cold tears while taking in the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Mountains, seagulls arcing overhead and the occasional seal head bobbing along the surface of the water.

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Pew Research on The State of the Gig Economy in 2021

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think tank, recently released The State of Gig Work in 2021 report.   The Pew Research Center, a highly regarded non-profit, non-partisan D.C.    The report covers the results of an in-depth survey of Americans who earn money from the gig economy, which Pew defined somewhat narrowly. 

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3 Trends That Could Define Your Career in 2021

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When you're making career plans for 2021, it's a smart idea to imagine where you think future economic growth will be, the industries that will still continue to suffer from the pandemic and whether this might be the right time to start your own business. Entrepreneurs will blossom.

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These Top 10 Celebrity Franchise Owners Are Winning Outside the Limelight, Too

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The rapper owns nearly 30 Wingstop restaurants. Drake Launched as a pop-up Hollywood eatery in 2017, Dave’s Hot Chicken franchise caught the eye of rapper Drake who signed on as a stakeholder in 2021. and international locations, the company saw 156% total sales growth in 2022 versus 2021. With over 700 U.S.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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Movies typically follow a three-act structure: the set-up of our hero, the confrontation they face, then the resolution. Here’s how you can find success in changing it up now. A friend called from California and said, ‘You’ve gone viral,’” Jordan told Tulsa World in 2021. Novels have a beginning, middle and end.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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They are large and small companies that have us fired up about the cool ways they are innovating and leveraging technology. Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting.

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