Wealth Gap
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Wealth Gap Costs Blacks $2.7T in Income Over Past Two Decades
America's persistent racial income and wealth gaps are the result of four intertwined factors: housing, education, business ownership and access…
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CAP Announces Formation of Advisory Council on Eliminating Black-White Wealth Gap
The Center for American Progress, a D.C.-based nonpartisan research and educational institute, has convened the National Advisory Council on Eliminating…
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WILLIAMS: Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth?
In a nation as prosperous as ours, instead of the Dow Jones, shouldn't our concern be directed toward three meals…
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MALVEAUX: Stop the Payday Loan Debt Trap
Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that…
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Black Homeownership at Crisis Level, CBCF Panel Says
The homeownership rate in the Black community was at nearly 50 percent a dozen years ago. Today, the figure stands…
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BUSINESS EXCHANGE: Make Black Businesses Matter
Why is it that blacks just want to shake the hand of wooing political candidates with no mention of engaging…
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EDITORIAL: A Painful Silence
The nation's capital has witnessed an enormous comeback reflecting many urban cities that have become magnets to a younger, more…
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Time Is Now to Combat Predatory Lending
The fight for fair lending got a big boost on Aug. 31 when a federal court rejected a payday loan…
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Payday-Loan Company Donates Cash to Help Low-Income Men
ACE Cash Express Inc. recently donated $7,500 to the nonprofit MenzFit group to help low-income men in the D.C. and…
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Barriers To Financing Undermines Black Entrepreneurship
Throughout America, minority communities are being undermined by a problem that may, in some ways, be as pernicious as underfunded…
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