What Should Be Obama’s Focus For SOTUS?
Are we entering a recession or a depression? What can we expect in the days ahead? Will we see massive layoffs, sky high interest rates, thousands more losing their homes and savings? Is there anything we can do to prepare? Absolutely it is something we can do…Start a home business! As the economy clings stubbornly […]
With a 40 percent approval rating and now African Americans becoming impatient with the President on the economy (which in my opinion is unfair), Obama’s…
In a recent BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll, 74 percent of African Americans polled approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy while 26 percent disapprove. The poll stands in sharp contrast to the Gallup Poll conducted on August 14th which found 74 percent of American disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy, while only 26 percent of approve. […]
By Nicole Massie Martin “I lift my eyes to the hills-from where will my help come? My help comes from the LORD who made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:1-2, NRSV Everyone is trying to figure out what’s happening to our economy. Scholars can’t figure it out, Wall Street can’t make sense of it, and our […]
VIA NEWSONE Black women have returned as the nation’s strongest performing demographic group in official unemployment figures. The release of today’s US Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals that black female unemployment declined for a consecutive month in June, falling 5 per cent from a rate 12.4 per cent in May to 11.8 per cent […]
Black women have emerged triumphant in May’s official unemployment data, with a decrease of 10 per cent in unemployment from 13.7 per cent in April to 12.4 per cent in May.
President Obama will be in the Charlotte area to talk about jobs and the economy on Friday. Details about his visit have not been released.
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Despite a move by two board members to implement pay cuts for CMS staff, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted last night to begin the process of laying off 600 teachers. With heavy hearts, and tied-hands the board voted 6-3 to reduce the staff and cut pay for assistant principals in preparation for […]
