Posts by Micah Arnold
Shut Out by the System: Why Corporate America Fails—and How Small Business Offers a Way Forward
By Joel Burstein, CEO, BEAM Collaborative Corporate America promises stability and advancement, but for many, it delivers exclusion. Older professionals laid off after decades of service. Veterans navigating the civilian job market. Mothers reentering the workforce after caregiving. Minorities sidelined by bias. Federal workers caught in political churn. Returning citizens seeking a second chance. And…
Read MoreThe tariffs are killing Pittsburgh’s small businesses
By Joel Burstein, CEO, BEAM Collaborative If Pennsylvania’s small businesses are the canary in the coal mine in gauging the effects of Trump’s trade war on our state, we should worry, because the canary is now on life support. The Trump administration’s immediate rejection of a request by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to exempt…
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