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Square just named Ford Foundation President Darren Walker to its board, the third time in the company's history that it's named a Black director
"Darren's life-long work around economic empowerment and social justice is deeply aligned with Squa…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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3 of Trump's high-profile Senate picks — Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, and JD Vance — are in serious trouble despite a favorable 2022 midterm climate for the GOP
Republicans are worried about the chances for three high-profile Trump-endorsed Senate candidates: …
Jake Lahut
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Investigation confirms Scott Walker bought a sweater for just $1
In a joint investigation with the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, researchers visited a Kohl's store in…
Leslie Larson
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Here's one number that should excite Scott Walker's fans in 2016
His campaign experience contrasts sharply with a number of his likely primary foes. Sen. Ted Cruz (…
Colin Campbell
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What you get if you donate $1 million to back presidential candidate Scott Walker
Contributors at the three levels of giving - "Executive Board Member" at $1 million, "Executive Com…
Leslie Larson
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Scott Walker aide fires off epic 40-tweet tweetstorm after resigning following just one day on the job
"I don't know everything about Branstad's record, but my general impression is that he's stayed tru…
Colin Campbell
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Keurig Dr Pepper just invested $50 million in Athletic Brewing, the brand dominating the nonalcoholic beer sector. Here's how the founder started and grew his brewery after leaving the hedge-fund world.
Bill Shufelt quit his job as a hedge fund manager and launched a non-alcoholic craft beer company. …
Nancy Luna
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The Girl Scouts received a $500,000 grant to become an anti-racist organization
The Ford Foundation donated $500,000 to the Girl Scouts to support the organization's recent push f…
Madison Hall
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How philanthropists can use their money to actually help achieve racial equality, according to the president of the Ford Foundation
Ford's Darren Walker asked philanthropists to fight economic inequality while acknowledging their h…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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The billionaire who dished out $34 million to pay off student loans for an entire college class says America's student loan system is a 'catastrophe'
Student-loan debt in the United States is at an all-time high. As a result of their debt, millennia…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Philanthropy is currently a 'Band-Aid on the open wound of American poverty' when it should be tackling larger systematic problems
I've written here in the past about how corporate philanthropy often masks the worst institutional …
Paul Constant
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We checked in on 70 cops who were involved in notorious police killings. Some are doing just great.
This is what happened to 72 police officers after killings that gained national attention and spark…
Jack Newsham,Katherine Long,N…
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A 'handful' of Cisco employees were fired after posting offensive comments objecting to the company's support of the Black Lives Matter movement
"Black lives don't matter. All lives matter," one employee reportedly wrote in an online public for…
Katie Canales
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Some federal lawmakers and their staffers are all in on cryptocurrency speculation as Congress mulls how (or how not) to regulate the coins
At least five members of the House and the Senate and 21 congressional staffers invested in cryptoc…
Kimberly Leonard,Camila DeCha…
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Russia sanctions almost 300 British MPs in retaliatory move, but its list includes several errors
Russia has banned hundreds of British MPs from entering its country, saying they were "whipping up …
Catherine Neilan
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Jeff Bezos could be the first 'woke' billionaire philanthropist - but only if he's willing to help solve the problems he's created
According to Giridharadas, Bezos is the first mega-giver to enter the arena of big philanthropy in …
Aria Bendix
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Exxon chases after a $2 trillion opportunity to capture and bury carbon emissions
Welcome to Insider Energy, Business Insider's weekly energy newsletter. Sign up to get it in your i…
Benji Jones
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Black millennial households earn about 60% of what their white counterparts make, and it highlights just how much worse the generational wealth gap is along racial lines
Black millennials take on more student debt and have a harder time finding a job post-graduation, o…
Hillary Hoffower
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Ted Cruz just won big in Wisconsin - but he'll have trouble replicating his success
Trump was also disadvantaged by several unique political factors in Wisconsin. The state has gone t…
Josh Barro
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Here are all the people who just made managing director at Morgan Stanley
About 29% of the new MD intake is female, according to one person familiar with the matter, the hig…