Obama HUD Official: Howard Schultz Owes All His Success to Government Housing Project

Whatever you might think of the Starbucks founder, the 65-year-old’s success story is the stuff the American dream was built on. Schultz was raised poor in the New York City housing projects. He was the first member of his family to attend college. Among other menial jobs, he sold Xerox copy machines for a living. During a trip to Italy, he had a vision of a coffee shop on every corner of America, and made that vision come true. The rest, as they say, is history. -- More...