The youth unemployment bomb

Posted on August 18, 2011

By Peter Coy In Tunisia, the young people who helped bring down a dictator are called hittistes-French-Arabic slang for those who lean against the wall. Their counterparts in Egypt, who on Feb. 1 forced President Hosni Mubarak to say he won’t seek reelection, are the shabab atileen, unemployed youths. The...
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Job No. 1: Keeping Alonso

Posted on November 24, 2010

James Campbell, a former member of the Baltimore school board and senior communications manager for the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, wrote this commentary, which appeared in the November 23 issue of the Baltimore Sun. “When the Baltimore school system announced the appointment of Andrés Alonso as its new...
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GBC BioPark Update: Despite the recession, bioscience growth still percolates in Baltimore

Posted on September 1, 2010

The recession has clearly affected the recent pace of growth in the Baltimore region’s three major bioscience and research parks. But, after listening to an update that managers of the parks delivered to Greater Baltimore Committee members this week, it’s easy to also recognize that bioscience industry growth is still...
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