By Alejandro Lazo CalMatters A new study of Silicon Valley wealth, income and other economic measures shows vast disparities in one of the country’s wealthiest regions,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The United States currently has certain interim policies and tools, such as automatic stabilizers like the Earned Income Tax Credit and Unemployment Insurance...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — And true to its roots, the revitalized United States Postal Service (USPS) knew how to make a buck. The reorganization legislation called for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “How strong is our economy? It is undoubtedly stronger than it was a year ago, but it's not as strong as some claim...
DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Charitable giving in the United States has surpassed pre-recession levels for the first time in seven years, according...
(Bloomberg) – Six years after the recession ended, many U.S. states are hard pressed to balance budgets because of a sluggish recovery and their own...
Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that Nomura Holdings Inc (8604.T) made false statements in...
Michael Corkery, THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI (The New York Times)—In September, Susan Rodolfi celebrated an unusual anniversary: five years of missed mortgage payments. She is...
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...
(Gallup) – Small businesses and startups are the crux of economic growth in the United States. Gallup continually collects and analyzes data to understand the...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Solid economic growth will help the federal budget deficit shrink this year to its lowest level since President Barack...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I had an interesting, though brief, discussion with a rich friend about President Obama. He is quite conservative, politically. He...
Lucia Mutikani, REUTERS (Reuters)—U.S. home resales tumbled to a six-month low in November after two straight months of strong increases, underscoring the uneven nature of...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—The Great Recession was hard on almost everyone, eroding the net worth of the typical American by...
Mark Landler, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times)—Before introducing his nominee to fill the job of defense secretary, President Obama took a moment on Friday...
Pan Pylas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — In a year that’s been awash with multi-billion dollar corporate deals, the number and value of mergers and...
PRINCETON, NJ (Gallup) — U.S. small-business owners are more likely now to say they are satisfied with being a small-business owner than they were at the...
MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When the economy tanks, women have fewer babies. But what happens in the following years, when conditions...
Andrew Zajac, Patrick G. Lee, and David Voreacos, BLOOMBERG (Bloomberg Businessweek)—In Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s telling, the $182 billion taxpayer bailout that saved American International Group Inc. (AIG:US) and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The unemployment rate for Blacks (11.4 percent) and Whites (5.3 percent) remained unchanged from July to...
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 Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University assesses the nation’s housing outlook. The recently-released The State of the...
(New York Times) – Real gross domestic product (G.D.P.) in the United States shrank by 1 percent in the first quarter of the year. What made this...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Scholars from several of the nation’s most-esteemed colleges and universities jointly concluded that the nation’s so-called housing “recovery” is bypassing...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist During 2013, the U.S. economy experienced a reasonable level of growth. The 3.4 percent growth rate in the second half...
