Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born to wealth. His father, “Colonel” A. H. “Gus” Hilton, was the leading merchant and trader in the tiny sun-baked mining village of San Antonio, New Mexico. Young Connie wanted to become a banker, and at age thirty-one he went to Texas to...
By Brian Meehan and Edward Timmons — April 19, 2018 This article was originally published in The Hill. Photo by Sunghwan Yoon, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0. Income inequality has become a prominent issue and a major political talking point. How...
By Edward Timmons, Brian Meehan, Andrew Meehan, and John Hazenstab — April 10, 2018 Click Here to Open the PDF in a New Tab Introduction There is growing bipartisan consensus that the US should pursue occupational licensing reform. Both the Obama...
Click Here to Open the PDF in a New Tab Click Here to Read the Op-Ed in The Hill Introduction For most, the American Dream is the ability to succeed through hard work and determination, regardless of family background or socio-economic status. This concept...
Today, the Estée Lauder Companies have become among the most important cosmetics companies in the world—against huge odds and well-established competitors. Estée Lauder was a very real person, born to an immigrant hardware store owner and his wife in Queens, New York....