by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
Danica Kirka, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — The richest 1 percent of the population will own more than half the world’s wealth by 2016, Oxfam...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The groundswell for criminal justice reform has become nearly daily headline news. Demonstrations spanning the nation and many parts of...
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...
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...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Amid stagnant wages, nagging underemployment and unemployment, many families continue to struggle with their finances. Some may even have wondered: “Will...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Economists have long argued that a rising wealth gap has complicated the U.S. rebound from the Great Recession....
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In a 2010 report titled, “Lifting as we Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future,” posted by Insight – Center...
SCOTT MAYEROWITZ, AP Business Writers CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Private elevators, personal shopping assistants, six-bedroom suites with their own postal...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist Not long ago, I attended the release of the National Urban League’s Annual State of Black America Report at the National Press...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Today, middle class households feel the same financial stress that low- and moderate-income families have borne for years, says new...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although most Sunday school children are warned against the “love of money,” by adulthood it is the lack of it that...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist According to a new research report, America’s racial wealth gaps will persist until public policy reforms provide every family the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist F. Scott Fitzgerald got it right when he said the rich are different. We are witnessing that in the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As long as most of us can remember, Black communities have taught and believed that a college education is the key...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
