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On Our Radar highlights issues of interest to the MPI Team, our clients and friends. We tend to pick topics of particular relevance to Vermont, whether or not they have emerged in national awareness yet.

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Americans are Turning Off the News

If you find yourself skimming the morning news and skipping the evening news, you're not alone. Columbia Journalism Review reports that there is a...

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Slowly Ever So Slowly More Female CEOs

Over the past 20 years, the number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies has increased by nearly 14-fold. Sounds good until you realize in 2021...

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Ageism, Economic Development and Entrepreneurship

The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are... Does age predict entrepreneurial success? Yes, say many Americans, and they would be right. But they would...

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Is Your Trust in the CDC Eroding?

Despite missteps amid a charged political season, I believe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) remains a public health institution...

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Public Health-Food System-Public Interest Communication Challenge

The most compelling and convincing of the many pieces I've seen during National Public Health Week 2019 are an article and a video in The New York...

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Toxic Chemicals: States Are Doing What EPA Won’t

Image Credit Patrick Kyle Since residents of Bennington, Vermont found PFOA in their tap water last year, it seemed a given to many of us that a...

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Unplugging: How To Power Down In A Wired World

Ryan Johnson for NPR NPR shared an excellent piece today on the impact of technologies on our brains. This is the subject of near-daily discussion in...

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How to Support Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas

The need is well documented. The Kauffman Foundation and others have detailed the female-male gap in business startup rates, gross revenues and...

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Targeting “Millennials” means targeting no-one

"If I were to tell you that marketers were using astrological signs as a way to understand/target specific groups of people, you’d tell me that’s a...

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Growth in U.S. Working-Age Population Driven by Immigration

Amidst all the talk about the declining population of younger working-age people in Vermont and much of the Northeast, this research finding from the...

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Advertising run amok...

Say it isn't so. We often work with public sector government agencies, so we are acutely aware of the financial and political pressures they...

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Ethical Investing (and Shopping) Made Easy?

I've watched with excitement the trend to make it easier for ordinary investors to identify sustainable, carbon-free, ethical or socially responsible...

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An Event Done Well: #StateOfWomen

The White House hosted the United State of Women Summit on June 14, inspiring those participating both in real life and virtually. #StateOfWomen is a...

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Ouch! Women Are Being Recognized Again

March marks Women’s History Month again, but I am not celebrating. Stories and images of courageous women of the past are everywhere. These women...

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10 Policy Solutions for Women and Minority-Owned Businesses

Ready to go... Ten policy solutions to close the funding and opportunities gaps for women and minority-owned businesses are being presented at the...

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Values in Action: Sustainable Local Food in Vermont

It's likely that your eyes glaze over as quickly as mine do when you hear lofty sustainable local food system goals and "walking the talk" rhetoric...

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Act On Climate

From The White House: Action on climate change? In what some may consider a long overdue move, the White House announced at midnight the final...

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