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After Building Her Own Business, This Colorado Mom is Helping to Empower Moms...
As a young woman, Heidi Ganahl turned heartbreak into healing. She’s doing the same as a mother decades later through her new organization, Moms Fight Back. Ganahl, 48, is the founder of Camp Bow Wow,...
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Teaching the Future – New Initiative Would Provide Public Schools With...
Fewer than 5 percent of all New York City public school students study computer science, according to city officials. That means just a tiny fraction of these schoolchildren are learning the subjects...
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“Lobbyists for the Future”– New Report Seeks to Help Entrepreneurs by...
Should companies ask for the privilege to innovate? Lincoln Labs, a free-market oriented group seeking to advance liberty through the use of technology, wants to bolster what it calls “permissionless...
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This Inspiring Woman is Teaching New York Youth How to Overcome Life’s...
Lawrese Brown had worked at a nonprofit organization for a year and half when she was let go unexpectedly. But instead of halting her career, disappointment became the catalyst Brown needed to vault to...
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What Women Want: New Research Gives GOP Honest Feedback For 2016
Female voters in swing states see the Democrats’ “war on women” narrative as political posturing, and they’re more interested in policy substance, according to new research by Christine Matthews of...
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Ann Romney Details Her Inspiring Fight with MS in New Book
If some political observers saw the 2012 Romney political campaign as too cautious and scripted, they’ve since seen Mitt Romney relaxed, loose and enjoying life: blogging photos of hiking with some of...
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A League of Their Own
The puck stops here. Or the puck drops here, rather. On Sunday, a group of women in Stamford, Connecticut made history by playing the first game in a professional women’s hockey league. Before a...
View ArticleWe Watched the Democratic Presidential Debate So You Didn’t Have To
Wow, that was a slog. Here are the main takeaways from the first Democratic presidential debate according to Opportunity Lives‘ editors and staff: John Hart, Opportunity Lives Editor-in-Chief,...
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Silicon Harlem Showcases How Free Markets Empower People of Color
Charisse Taylor, Director of Youth Career Connect at New York City’s Department of Education, summed up the sentiment from many of her fellow panelists at the annual Silicon Harlem Tech Conference on...
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Do Democrats Take African-American Voters For Granted? New Book Explores
MSNBC correspondent Joy-Ann Reid makes no secret of her liberal leanings and past Democratic campaign work, including as a press aide for the 2008 Obama campaign in Florida. Yet her new book,...
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Donald Trump and Hispanics: Barry Goldwater 2.0?
As Republican primary voters consider whether Donald Trump will carry the party banner next year, it’s worth considering how the frontrunner could be Barry Goldwater 2.0 on the question of race in...
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Charles Koch Explains Business Success in New Book
Charles and David Koch and their family are favorite bogeymen for extremist left-wing activists and mainstream liberal politicians like U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Charles reports he received 153...
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Outdated Regulations Keep These Entrepreneurial Women from Starting Their Own...
Aicheria Bell is passionate about natural hair care and has been braiding hair since she was 3-years-old. A single mom who relies on hair braiding to support herself and her daughter, Bell has braided...
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Meet The College Kid With A Mighty Viral Touch
Markeece Young just celebrated his 20th birthday on Monday. By that ripe old age, his voice has already reverberated across the national political landscape through viral online activism. A college...
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Book Review: Sticking to Substance- Reviewing Trump’s Record
Though Kevin D. Williamson’s forthcoming Encounter Broadside, “The Case Against Trump,” resorts at times to speculative attacks not unlike those the writer decries from Republican candidate Donald...
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Our Reactions to the Fox Business & Wall Street Journal GOP Debate
John Hart, Opportunity Lives Editor-in-Chief, @johnhart333 The clearest winner in Tuesday’s debate was the Fox Business Channel and co-moderator Neil Cavuto, who ended the night saying, “It wasn’t...
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This One Chart Shows Why the War on Poverty Isn’t Working
If Dwight Eisenhower wisely warned of a military-industrial complex, what of Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston’s warning of a poverty-industrial complex? Famous for her literary prowess,...
View ArticleHere’s How We Can Bridge the Wall Street-Main Street Divide
During Saturday’s Democratic debate, Wall Street was a favorite bogeyman of every candidate on stage. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the only one to offer an awkward embrace, connecting...
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Reagan Speechwriter Applies Timeless Lessons to Today’s Problems in New Book
Peggy Noonan has served as a lyrical observer of all things politics and culture for more than three decades. Her new book, “The Time of Our Lives,” is an anthology of her writing on some of the most...
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New Book Explores How Women Are Impacting Government for the Better
Jay Newton-Small casts a critical but balanced eye at the state of women in leadership roles in both public and private sectors in her forthcoming book, “Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way...
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