Robert Owen Carr

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ROBERT OWEN CARR is the founder of Heartland Payment Systems. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in three years at the University of Illinois, and earned master’s degree in computer and science from that school in the following year. He created the Give Something Back Foundation that gives college scholarships to students from modest backgrounds. RobertOCarr.com

Books

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 41,950. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2019 . Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Poverty & Homelessness
The book examines the challenges facing kids who have endured foster care or the incarceration of a mother (a soaring number) and their triumphs against all odds. Author Bob Carr hopes that readers acknowledge the great and often untapped talents of kids who have overcome adversity, both economic hardship and family woes, and the power of a helping hand and pivotal guidance.
Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 53,750. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Motivational
Working Class to College exposes an education class divide that is threatening the American dream of upward social mobility and sowing resentment among those shut out or staggering under crushing debt. The book addresses ways to reduce college costs and shares the inspiring accounts of those who have endured all sorts of hardship and fought their way to college and commencement.
Through the Fires: An American Story of Turbulence, Business Triumph and Giving Back
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 48,280. Language: English. Published: May 27, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Business biography, Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
This is a triumphant story of comeback in life and business. Robert Carr experienced decades of struggle that took him to the brink of home foreclosure at age fifty. He would later make a fortune in the card payments industry, only to lose almost everything in 2009, after one of the most devastating data breaches ever.