Monthly Archives: May 2022
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Crypto can be a driver for racial equity
A cryptocurrency is like digital money based on cryptography, which is really just complicated math. It does not have a physical existence and is not issued ... -
Special Feature: “Eyewitness News Guide to Inflation”
Inflation is something that affects us all in virtually every aspect of our lives, and we’ve seen the price of everything rise, from groceries to the ... -
Kentucky attorney general files case for 2023 gubernatorial race
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed paperwork Wednesday to enter the state’s 2023 gubernatorial race, hoping to push through his resistance ... -
Annual Latino Conference moves to Allentown – Times News Online
Published on May 10, 2022 at 1:29 p.m. Local Latino leaders held a press conference on April 28 announcing their intention to host the fifth annual ... -
New U.S. Funding Wins Six Stevie® American Business Awards®
Gold: Rick Arvielo, CEO – Lifetime Achievement Award – Consumer Service Industries Patty Arvielo, President – Woman of the Year – Consumer ServicesNew US Funding – ... -
In struggling communities, new forms of help are now needed
Illustration credit: Kingsley Nebechi As the private sector innovates in aid and funding, finding holistic solutions to neighborhood challenges is a cornerstone of the approach. Communities ... -
The school board approves the transportation contract, etc.
Published: May 09, 2022 07:00 In a split vote at its May 3 meeting, the Newtown School Board awarded All-Star Transportation a five-year transportation contract. In ... -
Chingona Ventures lands $52 million to fund overlooked founders in massive markets
Chingona Ventures, a three-year-old Chicago-based venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed startups primarily in the Midwest and mostly founded by overlooked individuals who focus on ... -
MBA forecast calls for higher house prices and mortgage rates
According to the new MBA Purchase Request Payment Index (PAPI), homebuyer affordability declined in March, with the national median payment requested by applicants rising 5% to ... -
Asian markets are largely down after the fall of Wall Street
GLOBAL MARKETS DJIA 32997.97 -1063.09 -3.12% Nasdaq 12317.69 -647.16 -4.99% S&P 500 4146.87 -153.30 -3.56% FTSE 100 7503.27 9.82 0.13% Nikkei Stock 26800.49 -18.04 0.07% Hang ... -
Fed interest rate hike will hurt black consumers
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted the biggest interest rate hike in more than two decades. The move means rates on everything from personal loans to ... -
Hispanic Federation and Comcast NBCUniversal Telemundo Announce New Partnership to Advance Digital Equity Among Latino Communities Nationwide
A total of $635,000 in grants will be distributed to 20 organizations to support digital skills training and prepare thousands of Latinos for the workforce of ... -
Berkeley continues to lose teachers. Can the district make them stay?
A fifth-grade teacher at Washington Elementary helps students with homework on August 16, 2021. Credit: Kelly Sullivan Seven years ago, Alice Lake got her dream job: ... -
Arkansas, Montana and Oklahoma lead initiative to improve college completion rates
$1.75 million grant from Ascendium Education Group will support multi-state comprehensive college … [+] US initiative to improve college completion rates for students from historically underserved ... -
Stop asking how to pay for free college and realize the unfair and unnecessary expense of not doing it
It wasn’t always like this Until the 1990s, student debt was such a small percentage of consumer debt that it wasn’t even really tracked by the ... -
Homeownership and the American Dream during Covid
A line of black residents awaiting relief distribution during the 1937 Ohio River flood. (Margaret Bourke-White/Wikimedia) EDITOR’S NOTE:In the fall of 2021, a group of students ... -
Who owns Newark? Rutgers-Newark Study Reveals Disturbing Increase in Corporate City Home Purchases | Rutgers University
MEDIA CONTACTCarrie StetlerDeputy Director of Media RelationsRutgers-Newark [email protected] According to a Rutgers-Newark University report titled Who owns Newark? The Rutgers Center on Metropolitan Law, Inequality and ... -
Bubble housing fears are mounting, but any correction won’t be like the last
In the first year of the pandemic, home values defied expectations by soaring. In the second year of living with COVID, real estate prices have skyrocketed ... -
How neobanks are revolutionizing digital lending
Fintech disruptors like Revolut are shaking up the world of credit. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Fintech lending by neobanks – online services without ... -
Income, debt, examples of ordinary Americans
The typical middle-class American earns between about $30,000 and $90,000 According to Pew, a single American earning between $30,000 and about $90,000 a year is an ...
