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HOUSTON, April 15, 2021 /3BL Media/ - DiversityFirstTM will be hosting the 17th Annual National Diversity and Leadership Conference on April 21-22 and April 28-29, 2021. The conference will be held virtually with this year’s theme being “Be a Changemaker”. The four-day conference will honor a number of diverse talent from different industries.
In celebration of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, we want to honor women in the C-Suite (CEO, CFO, COO, Senior Executives, etc) from top companies who endeavor to improve not just their departments and companies, but their communities as well. Now we celebrate their hard work and progressive initiatives that serve to make the gender gap in the C-Suite just that much smaller.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bunker Labs has announced new details for its upcoming annual Muster conference on Thursday February 25, 2021.
Dick Leinenkugel, President of the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company will lead a toast during the vConnect happy hour portion of the agenda. Special guest retired Commander and U.S. Navy pilot Karen Brasch from Intuit will also be in attendance for the happy hour.
Bunker also announced that Shannon Huffman Polson and D Shawn Russell will deliver keynote speeches at the Muster, in addition to a keynote speech by retired United States Army four-star general John W. Nicholson. Polson was one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army, and is the author of
without because of washington. vivian greentree s husband is overseas while she works and looks after two young children. we have spent a large amount of the time this morning speaking about what we would do if he doesn t get paid and how to react to that with our own finances, and i know it is a conversation that has been had through e-mail, texting and facetime, skype for military families all over the country. reporter: many live paycheck to paycheck. at fort campbell, kentucky, continuing worry. the bills are due, and you can t tell the electric department, hey, i got an iou. reporter: washington knows that the troops are unhappy and so the republican-controlled house passed a measure to keep paying the troops in the shutdown, but the senate has yet to act. and for america s veterans, the outlook is more dire because of the other crisis, raising the debt ceiling before the government runs out of money. if it goes longer than a few
if the government shuts down at midnight on monday, millions of people will be affected. and while the military will still be expected to report to duty, many troops may not get paid on time. joining us now from washington, vivian greentree. she s a navy veteran and the director of research and policy with the blue star families. vivian, thanks for joining us. tell me, what are you hearing from the military families with blue star? what are their biggest concerns? well, we know from our research that financial health and readiness is a top concern for military families. we know that from our annual survey of military families. so even the threat of the shutdown has caused added anxieties. and if it is to occur and military families don t get paid, we also know that a lot of military families live paycheck to paycheck. and are single-income families. the military spouse unemployment rate is 26%. so we are in a dire situation, if our military families aren t being paid.
it to give it to the families, but the impact will last past this immediate crisis. vivian greentree, thanks so much for your time. thanks for having me. on tuesday, open enrollment begins for obama care, and some people aren t too happy, because they feel they re being forced to buy health care coverage. so i want you to listen to this ireport from william bernstein. he s from virginia beach, virginia. hello, everyone. i m william. so here s the deal. i ve not had health insurance since 2007. that s when i stopped working full-time. since then, i ve had many part-time jobs. right now i do piano playing for churches and events part-time, i work at this shipping company right here part-time, and i do freelance news and storm reporting part-time. that s the key word or words, part-time equals no health insurance. and come january, me and millions of other americans are going to be forced to do and to pay for obama care? i don t think so. obama care is unconstitutional and needs t