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Small Business Minister Rechie Valdez. The government should step forward and create a fully supported ecosystem connecting companies to entrepreneurs-in-waiting as the older generation of owners retire, writes Cordell Jacks. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CORDELL JACKS

August 31, 2023

This inflection point of converging crises we find ourselves in impacts every aspect of our lives. A warming climate meets a fragile economy meets housing unaffordability—all buttressed by massive inequality, a much-needed social reckoning, and rampant misinformation.

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