Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. businesses were much less likely to boost pay in the third quarter than in previous months,...
Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates...
Hunter Schwarz, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—For the first time in six years, unemployment has fallen below 6 percent, according to data released last...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The unemployment rate for Blacks fell from 11.4 percent to 11 percent and the labor...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) — Boosted by the lowest jobless rate in six years, President Barack Obama on Friday heralded September’s hiring...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist One of the most interesting findings of the data recently released by the Census Bureau is that so many recent college graduates...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been floating at or above the 17,000 mark in the past two months – an...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The nation’s digital technology and social media companies are helping to transform how people throughout the world communicate and...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I don’t do vacations well. I have to be pushed and prodded, just about guilt-tripped, into taking time off. Sure, I’ll...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Unemployment rates were “little changed” in March 2013 – they were either holding steady or dropping by a tenth of...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As Black America continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, a new research report by Demos, a public policy organization...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When unemployment numbers were released on Friday, commentators reacted joyfully. Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In consideration of the latest shenanigans from Congress as it pertains to the economic conditions facing most Americans these days, unemployment...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist How will African Americans improve our situation in 2013? Right now, we have higher unemployment than any other population in...
by Benjamin Todd Jealous Special to the NNPA from the North Dallas Gazette There is a missing component to the national discussion concerning how to...
Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have to confess to you that it was very difficult for me to follow the Republican Convention. Talk about a...
