From the editor: Looking back, so we can move forward

Full and original article posted on Worcester Business Journal

Nothing just happens for no reason. Every decision ever made compounds on each other, to create the situation we’re living in. And, once in a while, a key moment in history shapes much about the future.

We all live in large communities and have a societal hierarchy because 10,000 years ago someone decided it would be easier to grow food than to hunt and gather. And certain people are wealthy while others are locked in cycles of poverty, just like some neighborhoods thrive while others limp along with lack of economic investment, because almost a century ago, a small slice of the ruling class decided who should get money and who shouldn’t.

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