By Barrington M. Salmon, NNPA Newswire Contributor Everywhere ordinary Americans turn, it seems, the spectre of inflation haunts their everyday lives. Everything costs more: Food. Shelter. Gasoline. Eating out. Clothes. Vehicles. And a most goods and services. Illustrating the pervasive nature of inflation, is that rents, the cost of new and used cars and even […]
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If you believe the media, you might think that Blacks are ungrateful immigrants who don’t understand what it means to be an American. In fact, in a survey conducted by The New York Times and CBS in 2011, only 42% of respondents felt Blacks were as patriotic as any other
group.
When it comes to the tech field, African Americans are woefully underrepresented. Data from Zippia shows that less than 8% of tech jobs in the U.S. are held by African Americans. That’s not much, considering that African Americans make up almost 15% of the total U.S population.
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By Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC), House Majority Whip Higher education should be a staircase to economic mobility, but student loan debt has become a barrier for far too many. More than $1.6 trillion in outstanding federal student loan debt is crushing 43.4 million borrowers in the United States today. Millions can’t afford to buy […]
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