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Why Employment is Unfairly Low for African Americans

December 6, 2019

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz The wage gap is a well-known topic that spans genders and ethnicities, but its not the only thing. Employment rates for African Americans are low, especially when compared to their white counterparts and the Center for American Progress looked into the reason why. Earlier this week, the Center for American Progress published […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Wage Gap

Disney, Stiglitz and Others Criticize Excesses of Billionaires and Uber-Wealthy

April 27, 2019

By Barrington M. Salmon NNPA Newswire Contributor Disney Heiress Abigail Disney is the latest critic of the vast disparity between workers and business executives to level intense and passionate criticism at a system that allows CEOs to rake in unbelievable amounts of cash, stock options and benefits while ordinary workers languish in stagnation. In tweets […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Abigail Disney, Barrington M. Salmon, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Wage Gap

Poverty Still Major Affliction for Blacks

June 5, 2015

By Stacy M. Brown June 5, 2015   Congressional Black Caucus Chair G.K. Butterfield said Republicans must help Democrats fight poverty in African-American communities. (Courtesy Photo)   Stacy M. Brown is Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer.     Black America is in a state of emergency, and what’s happened in Baltimore, Ferguson, […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Poverty, Congressional Black Caucus CBC, G.K. Butterfield, Gender Gap, JUNE 5 2015, Poverty, VOL. 25 NO. 21, Wage Gap

Black Families Must Focus on Asset Building

May 29, 2015

By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Columnist May 29, 2015   Charlene Crowell, NNPA Columnist     As the wealthy few continue to prosper, the rest of the nation is caught in a financial tug-of-war between stagnant wages and a rising cost of living. In communities of color, chronic unemployment and underemployment and a host of other […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Color of Wealth Summit, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act HMDA, Income Inequality, MAY 29 2015, Personal Finance, VOL. 25 NO. 20, Wage Gap, Wealth Building



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