HOUSTON, TEXAS --U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told a packed crowd of mostly Democrat women in Houston that she is on a crusade to increase minimum wage, achieve paycheck When Women Succeed, America Succeeds. The event featured many women speaking who told their stories of overcoming lifes situations to rise to the top in their areas of expertise. Most of them said they did so without public assistance. Maria Rios, a Salvadorian immigrant, talked about her working her way through college with the help of her husband on just his salary. She graduated from the University of Houston and began looking for opportunity. She was working for a large trash company and as she drove around Houston she said, When I see trash, I see opportunity. She developed a business plan and took it to a bank that believed in her model and financed her first two trucks. From there, with many years of hard work, she built the business to many trucks and many dumpsters. She applied to the City of Houston for a major trash contract that was not covered, she said, by minority business quotas. She was told she would never get that away from the large trash companies. Despite this, her company, Nations Waste, Inc., was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the city of Houston. She has been recognized locally and by President Obama as one of the nations outstanding business leaders. We stressed quality service, Rios said. Nothing is impossible if you work hard and follow your dreams, she told the crowd of mostly young women.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 02:57:22 +0000
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