Daniel Lubetzky

I am a big fan of Starbucks’s Create Jobs for USA campaign and it is incredibly admirable to see business leaders take a stand for the state of our country.   For every purchase of the $5 Indivisible wristband, Starbucks will donate $35 to Opportunity Finance Network, an organization that doles out grants to Community Development Financial Institutions.  These organizations in turn forward money to small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofits and other community focused institutions, in hopes of- you guessed it- creating jobs.

We have never been more proud to be one of Starbucks and Howard Schultz’s partners.

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This great NYT article is the source of this weeks’ quote:

Resilience, not luck, is the signature of greatness.

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“Can Anyone Really Create Jobs,” this New York Times article asks.  Adam Davidson’s answer is no, and that presidential candidates especially don’t possess this magical power.

This fact doesn’t cork the flow of candidate jobs plans, and more importantly there are other problems that our country will face at the end of the job crisis; it would be good to hear candidates address these issues as well.

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Check out this very endearing video of Daniel’s cousin, Emmanuel Lubezki, accepting an award at the Hollywood Film Awards:

This Thomas Friedman article delineates the ways in which CITIGROUP has functioned immorally.  Of greater concern, this example is representative of a larger problem of expanding of injustice and corruption in the inseparable financial and political arenas.

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This Huffington Post article by Joel Braunold of OneVoice is excellent and worth reading.  Joel articulates the deeper meaning behind UNESCO Membership for Palestinians: “the establishment of World Heritage sites.”  According to Joel, this is crucial in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which at its core is about connection to the land, and control over it.

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A number of friends believe we will be able to eventually stop aging and live many decades beyond our assumptions. As radical (and in my opinion, scary) as this vision is, this recent study is a major potential breakthrough in that direction. Maybe Kurzweil’s predictions will turn out to be correct!

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Another KIND Tuesday has come and gone, and this time, your kindness has enabled us to deliver Thanksgiving meals to seniors in need! This big feat was impressive enough to capture CBS LA and LA Magazine’s attention, as you can see from the great clips below.

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According to Nicole Lapin, Financial Journalism had a gaping void: there was no content geared to young women looking for informative, easy to read financial news and advice.  Check out her new site, Recessionista.com, to see how Nicole swiftly filled the void!

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This article, written by Gershon Baskin is sadly, very good .  If anything, it is too gentle with the potential downside.  The Palestinian economy is actually witnessing growth under Fayyad. If the cuts in aid push the Palestinian economy into a recession, it is far less certain that Palestinians will continue to have a stake in the path of non-violence that Abbas has laid out. 

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