…It’s the big reason why you should talk to Baltimore Rising about getting the money you need to grow your business.
By “your business,” we’re talking about the one you want to locate in Baltimore’s neighborhoods that are what we like to call “Opportunity’s New Frontier.” Click here to see a printable list of the neighborhoods we’re talking about.
Hey. As you know from other articles we’ve published, literally thousands of Baltimore’s unemployed and under-employed people could find jobs – good jobs – if only they had affordable transportation to get to work. Unfortunately, bus and rail transportation are not sufficient for many people living in Baltimore to get to jobs at a distance inside the city and certainly not in the suburbs.
We need to help people get to work, literally.
There are thousands of available jobs throughout the greater metropolitan area that unemployed people in the city can’t take without the personal transportation they need to get to work. They don’t own a car and can’t qualify prospectively for the financing they can afford now that they are working. (Credit approval for new car purchases is a retrospective process based on your credit history – and that’s something we need to change.) Commuting into the suburbs by bus and/or rail isn’t an option. Buying an older used car, without a long-term warranty, is an expensive and ill-advised alternative. Many unemployed people need an affordable new car – or late model used car, just 2 or 3 years old, protected by a manufacturer’s or franchise dealer warranty.
Thanks to the exceptional work of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, we can now show you a map of Baltimore neighborhood unemployment rates. It’s at the bottom of this post. Neighborhoods with unemployment rates of 10% or higher qualify for our JOB$ Employer Funding Service.
With the primary behind us… Well, not exactly. The Maryland State Board of Elections has still not published data for provisional votes or the second round of absentee ballots. Presumably it will before the winners are formally certified on Friday. But okay, with the primary almost behind us and the general election just six months ahead, we can’t be the only ones thinking that our election process could stand improvement.
Over the weekend, we published our new flier for “JOB$, The Employer Funding Program From Baltimore Rising.” The purpose of the program is to help employers obtain bank financing for $100,000 to $10 million that they need to relocate or expand inside Baltimore neighborhoods that are struggling.
Hey. We have an exciting program to tell you about. Just click on the link below to see the flier. And then, if you’re interested – and you will be – come back to fill out our form.
Thanks. Don’t hesitate to call or email us if you have any questions. And please, if you’re not personally interested, help us spread the word.
Note: The original text of this piece has been updated to reflect the final count published by the Maryland State Board of Elections on Friday evening, May 6, 2016.
First of all, our sincere and enthusiastic congratulations to Democratic Nominee for Mayor Catherine Pugh. Senator, soon to be Mayor Pugh has worked long and hard over a noteworthy career of public service. Hers is a well-deserved victory. We wish her luck and can only hope that she lives up to her potential and to the promise of her candidacy. …One more comment about Ms. Pugh in a moment.
Waiting to vote., A small price to pay to assert control over our city government.
By now, candidates, your mother, friends – who seriously believe that their participation in the election makes them superior – and others have given you the standard reasons why you should vote. Let’s review them briefly…
Hi. A lot has been said of late about the costs of running for Mayor and about two candidates in particular. One is self-made millionaire venture capitalist David Warnock. The other is a government employee, attorney Elizabeth Embry. Mr. Warnock is wealthy. Ms. Embry is not.
David Warnock is a good man. He’s just not a good candidate with anything exceptional to offer the people of Baltimore.
Smart and hard working, he has a long-proven record of success as a venture capitalist and has spent millions of his own money through his foundation and other initiatives for the benefit of his adopted city. So why isn’t he doing better in the polls?
The simple answer is, money can’t buy you love. (Be sure to click on the link!)
Life is short. Let’s get right down to business. Three points…
One is that we need to extend the limit on campaign contributions, which is now $6000 per person or entity, to cover the candidates themselves.
In the race for Mayor of Baltimore, David Warnock has spent in excess of $1.5 million of his own money, mostly for broadcast television commercials, and he’s still stuck under 10% in the polls.