Felicia's Story: Reentry Programs That Open Educational Doors

After overcoming substance use, Felicia Allen joined reentry programs at Fortune to accomplish another goal: obtaining her High School Equivalency diploma.
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The fund owned 26,445 shares of the technology company's stock after buying an additional 2,030 shares during the period. Cetera Advisor Networks LLC's holdings in International Business Machines were worth $3,848,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. boosted its holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 5.5% during the third quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 5,329,060 shares of the company's stock worth $291,659,000 after buying an additional 277,715
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The Brady House branch of Punjab National Bank is housed in a fine old colonial building at the heart of India's financial capital, just a brief lunchtime stroll from the Reserve Bank of India. On Sunday night, though, the mood was very different as it swarmed with officials from the CBI, India's equivalent of
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RIGA, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Latvia's commercial banking association called on the European Central Bank on Wednesday to step in and sort out a crisis at lender ABLV Bank. which has asked for emergency funding after being accused by the U.S. Treasury of money laundering. Latvia's financial sector has
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The war between established yogurt makers and upstarts intensified when Dannon Co. sued a former senior vice president for allegedly taking confidential information and trade secrets to his new job at Chobani LLC. Federico Muyshondt is accused of stealing details of Dannon's business strategies,
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And now, the bank is looking for a new leader of its U.S. mortgage business, who will be tasked with the “successful completion of mortgage transformation,” among many other responsibilities. Citigroup played a major role in housing after the turn of the century and into the housing boom years, however
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The key to Canadian Creek's promise is summed up by the old saw about the three things that matter in real estate: “Location. Location. Location.” The district-scale Yukon property shares 12 kilometres of border on its northern side with Goldcorp's Coffee deposit (3.0 million ounces of indicated gold and
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider litigation brought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders that accused the government of overstepping its authority when redirecting the government-sponsored enterprises' profits to the Treasury Department following the 2008 enactment of
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Top Ford Motor Company executive Raj Nair has left the company following an internal investigation into reports of inappropriate behavior, the automaker said Wednesday. Nair has been president of Ford's North America division since June 2017. But he's held a number of key positions at the
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According to Paragon Real Estate, only 12% of households in San Francisco can afford it. Patrick Carlisle, the chief market analyst at Paragon who worked on the report, has said low housing affordability is the greatest economic and social issue issue facing the Bay Area. San Francisco, one of the
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China HGS Real Estate Inc (NASDAQ:HGSH) generated a below-average return on equity of 4.06% in the past 12 months, while its industry returned 9.50%. Though HGSH's recent performance is underwhelming, it is useful to understand what ROE is made up of and how it should be interpreted.
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The state of Ohio works with mortgage companies, lenders and credit unions to offer home loans to people with low and moderate incomes, including first-time home buyers. You're considered a first-time buyer if you haven't owned a residence within three years. The Ohio Housing Finance Agency,
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Deutsche Börse has reported that its yearly revenue increased by 3 percent in 2017, ending the year with €2.4 million, compared to €2.3 million at the end of 2016. The company also achieved structural net revenue growth of approximately 5 percent, which it said is in line with its planning. Adjusted net
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“I remember the first time I drank at a white water fountain. I was disappointed. I believed that it must have been sugar water coming from it.” JoAnne Bland was eleven years old when she marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. in a now-famous march for voting rights that has come to be
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Oaktree Specialty Lending logo Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (NASDAQ:OCSL) Director Marc Gamsin purchased 35,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Monday, February 12th. The stock was acquired at an average price of $4.39 per share, with a total value of $153,650.00.
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The Sarasota-Manatee housing market outperformed both the national and state marks in January sales, new statistics and reports released Wednesday indicate. While closed sales rose locally in year-over-year comparisons, they fell across the country and state. Median home prices also rose again in
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Johannesburg – South Africa's banking association said on Wednesday finance minister Malusi Gigaba's 2018 budget showed the government willingness to take some of the hard decisions necessary to restore fiscal stability, but much more serious work needed to be done to ensure fast, sustainable
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This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. To contact the author of this story: Eli Lake at elake1@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tobin Harshaw at tharshaw@bloomberg.net. Before it's here, it's on the
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