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What America Needs Now: Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship and a New Era of Jobs

The successful White House Urban Entrepreneurship Summit held on Monday, June 6th, 2011, in Newark, New Jersey, was a powerful start in the right direction, and I want to thank the Obama Administration, the Rutgers University Business School, Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Russell Simmons, Startup America, NYC Public Advocate, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and of course President Barack Obama, for making this summit vision real for people.  Operation HOPE, which serves under-served, urban and inner-city communities, was honored to be one of the co-host organizations for the summit.

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