By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The hardest work in the world is being out of work.” – Whitney M. Young, National Urban League President 1961-1971...
By Wellington Webb NNPA Guest Columnist I served as Mayor of Denver from 1991 to 2003 and was the only mayor in U.S. history to...
Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market remains a frustrating place for America’s 9 million unemployed — perhaps more so as...
Paul Davidson, USA TODAY (USA Today)—A strengthening labor market will not let up this year, economists say, with job growth approaching or exceeding the estimated...
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...
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 The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been floating at or above the 17,000 mark in the past two months – an...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Supporting education and training for our youth is a smart investment that can help rebuild local economies and pay...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by the way too many Americans lived,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Happy New Year! January first and second are the days when most think of the “new” year, yet with the...
[UPI] A large majority of U.S. workers do not like their jobs with a significant portion of them disruptive in at least a passive-aggressive sense, a...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The term “payday loans” often evokes images of stores with garish neon signs; but these products have moved into the...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Despite working a full-time job, many low-wage workers still live in poverty. This isn’t right.” – Rep. George Miller...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist On May 21, I had the opportunity to testify before a Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting on how federal dollars drive...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Guest Columnist The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) is gearing up for a Day of Direct Action June 17...
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By William Reed NNPA Columnist There is no easy way or walk to freedom; no shortcuts to justice; no quick fix for conceiving and constructing...
By Wendell Anthony NNPA Guest Columnist One Hundred- and 80 years ago in his journey across America to report on “Democracy in America,” the great...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Although the dictionary calls it archaic, the “management of a household” is one of the definitions listed for the word “economy.” Another...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Suppose one of the key committees in Congress scheduled a hearing on one of the country’s most debilitating economic...
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 James Clingman NNPA Columnist Thomas Boston, noted economist and author of Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship, in which he called for a strategy that would...
[SMART PLANET] Lower-income jobs may be in the highest supply since the 2007-09 recession, but Americans remain unconvinced that things are improving. As reported by the...
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...