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Since the 1960s, black businesses have been diversifying and expanding in response to increases in entrepreneurial talent and investment capital. Opportunities created by policies such as procurement set-aside programs have induced better educated, younger blacks to create and expand firms in new lines of business, including wholesaling, contracting, and skill-intensive services. Bates argues that targeting assistance toward these emerging small businesses could go far toward halting the chronic drain of capital and skills suffered by our nation's inner cities. For the research in this book, Bates has been quoted most recently in The Economist and, twice, in The Wall Street Journal, whose editors described him as 'the reigning expert on minority business.' In 1993 Banking was cited in Congressional hearings for its evidence of the positive impact that greater investment in minority-owned firms could have on inner-city poverty.

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At a time when education has become a major concern of the American people, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has published this third essay in a series of essays on issues of critical importance to the black community. Visions of a Better Way identifies the weaknesses of our public school systemóone of which is second-class schooling for black studentsóand suggests ways of eliminating them. The essay looks to model schools, those schools that have succeeded in educating today's heterogeneous student population, for answers to the hard questions confronting American educators.

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