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Convince America's smart young grads to forego law school and med school in favor of a business startup....

Howard University’s School of Business has always offered courses in starting, running and managing a company. In recent years, faculty and administrators realized that business students were no longer the only ones actively seeking business training.“Our students have always been interested in entrepreneurship, but I feel like it’s really exp...

A new study found that female graduates earn 7% less than males when entering the workforce.A new study confirms what you may already suspect: female college graduates earn significantly less than males in their first jobs.Females were found to earn 82 cents to every dollar that males earned in their first full-time jobs, CNNMoney reported. The...

Ed Gardner, the 87-year-old founder of Soft Sheen hair care products, met with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week to discuss the lack of African-American construction workers on jobs around the city....

While the unemployment rate declined, the low number of new jobs created indicates continuing struggles for the U.S. economy.The U.S. economy added only 96,000 jobs in August, according to the monthly employment report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor.The number fell short of expectations; economists surveyed by...

The number of entry-level employees in workforce has not been this low since 1955, one report says.The unemployment rate may have gone down slightly in August, but that was in part because more people have given up looking for jobs. More concerning, however, is the fact the shrinking labor force is losing the very job seekers that are supposed to...