By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent In its nonstop assault on the most vulnerable Americans, the Trump administration is preparing to impose...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Economists advising The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans have developed economic formulas...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — William Spriggs, a professor in Howard University’s Economics Department and an economist for AFL-CIO, cautioned that the government’s job numbers shouldn’t frighten anyone.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — All indications show that Jennifer Abruzzo, the President’s new general counsel, is helping to lead the charge and losing no time. She has...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the summer of 1963, Reuther teamed up with Dr. King in Detroit for The Walk to Freedom, the largest Civil Rights demonstration...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Outrage mixed with panic for several thousand federal workers who marched Thursday to the White House in an appeal to President Trump.
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — In her first news conference as a Senate-confirmed Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Kathleen Kraninger’s remarks sounded a lot...
![“[Donald] Trump and his appointees have done everything in their power to undermine the Consumer Bureau. Mick Mulvaney, who Trump installed to serve as Acting Director of the agency, dropped lawsuits and investigations into abusive payday lenders, took away the Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity’s enforcement powers, fired the members of the agency’s Consumer Advisory Board, scaled back enforcement actions against bad actors, sought to slash the agency’s budget, and apparently made it his mission to help out bad actors,” said Congresswoman Maxine Waters.](https://blackpressusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/mulvaney-featured-web-400x240.jpg)
![“[Donald] Trump and his appointees have done everything in their power to undermine the Consumer Bureau. Mick Mulvaney, who Trump installed to serve as Acting Director of the agency, dropped lawsuits and investigations into abusive payday lenders, took away the Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity’s enforcement powers, fired the members of the agency’s Consumer Advisory Board, scaled back enforcement actions against bad actors, sought to slash the agency’s budget, and apparently made it his mission to help out bad actors,” said Congresswoman Maxine Waters.](https://blackpressusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/mulvaney-featured-web-80x80.jpg)
NNPA NEWSWIRE — What happens over the next five years will test the mettle of those who fought to create an agency given the mission to...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) Black women will play a key role in electing the next president, according to a recent report by the...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) The Black unemployment rate ticked down from 8.9 percent in March to 8.8 percent in April and...
JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — It’s not just Gov. Scott Walker. Republican lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is proposing tougher restrictions on brokers who manage Americans’ retirement accounts, reigniting a confrontation with...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist On September 15, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka did something quite fascinating. He spoke to a labor audience in St....
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest labor federation took aim Thursday at the conservative Koch brothers in ads designed to highlight the...
