Low-income entrepreneurs welcome added assistance, By Katie Johnson, October 12, 2015, Boston Globe: “For a decade, Tiffany White worked as an executive assistant in Dorchester, living paycheck to paycheck to support herself and her son. But now she is on the other side of the corporate divide, the owner of a new business looking to hire as many as six employees for a natural skin and nail care studio scheduled to open in Hyde Park in November. White, 46, credits her leap to becoming a business owner to a free 12-week entrepreneurship program aimed at residents of Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty