Financial Management
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Aug- 2019 -25 August
COMMENTARY: America’s Racial Wealth Gap Could Cost Economy $1.5 Trillion
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Black families are underserved and overcharged by institutions that can provide the best channels for saving,” states the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, The economic impact of…
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24 August
Wells Fargo Announces $1 Billion Affordable Housing Commitment
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Candy Moore, the senior vice president and manager of Wells Fargo’s Community Relations and Southeast Community Development, told NNPA Newswire that the company will invest $1 billion…
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23 August
Groundbreaking Initiative Shows Pathway to Propel Black Homeownership
CHICAGO DEFENDER — While statistics may paint a grim picture of Black homeownership, a recent event in Baltimore laid out a clear path for turning those numbers around across the country.…
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1 August
OP-ED: Reform Alternative Business Lending Practices to Protect Small-Business Owners
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lenders have been requiring their small business borrowers, as a condition of receiving any short-term loans from them, to sign confessions of judgement that waive borrowers’ legal…
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Jul- 2019 -31 July
Don’t Chase Last Year’s Mutual Fund Category Winners
PASADENA JOURNAL — The world of mutual funds can be confusing. With more than 9,000 funds on the market, how can you choose the ones that are right for you?…
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24 July
Committee Democrats Work to Reform Broken Credit Reporting System
NNPA NEWSWIRE — WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, convened a full Committee markup that will include bills introduced by Committee Democrats to…
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24 July
Earned Income Tax Credit Reduces Taxes for Low- and Moderate-Income Wage Earners
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Earned Income Tax Credit was implemented as a way to offset the impact of Social Security taxes on low to moderate taxpayers and to provide them…
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21 July
If You’re Poor in America, Debtor’s Prison is Real
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The people who are jailed or threatened with jail often are the most vulnerable Americans living paycheck to paycheck, one emergency away from financial catastrophe, according to…
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17 July
Waters to Facebook: Today’s Hearing is Only the First Step in Our Oversight and Legislative Process
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Facebook has proposed backing Libra tokens with government currencies and government guaranteed securities, and holding them in a so-called Libra Reserve, to be governed by Facebook and…
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