Caribbean Summit: Venezuelan Crisis Tops Concerns
Solving Venezuela's leadership and economic crisis is slated to be a top priority at the 2016 Caribbean Summit.
Category Archives: economics
PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell: ‘Organizing Matters
Angela Glover Blackwell is attentive the entire time at this year’s Georgia Budget & Policy Institute (GBPI) conference. As she peers through her eyeglasses, she jots down notes on a legal pad and simultaneously gives an unwav...
Black Businesses Resuscitating Detroit’s Resurgence
Kate Abbey-Lambertz of the Huffington Post is reporting that black owned businesses are quietly helping Detroit’s economic recovery, but getting little to no credit in the dominant narrative of the resurgence of the city, wh...
‘Black Beverly Hills’: View Park Battles Gentrificati
Angel Jennings of the Los Angeles Times is reporting that a recent proposal to place predominately African American View Park on the National Register of Historic Places has catalyzed a controversial battle between residents in Lo...
Puerto Rico Facing Historic Default on $72B Debt
Alan Gomez of USA Today is reporting Puerto Rico is days away from a historic economic collapse. Gomez writes: “Gov. Alejandro García Padilla, who took office two years ago, told Puerto Ricans during a televised address Mond...
Brazil Uses Text Messaging to Reach Job Seekers
Ozy.com is reporting that text messaging is becoming an option for job seekers in places where expensive cell data plans and Internet cafe’s are cost prohibitive. Shannon Sims gives an example of Maria Angélica de Souza Sant...
Former DC Mayor Marion Barry Dies
Mike DeBonis and Martin Weil of The Washington Post are reporting that former Washington, DC Mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry has died after a brief stay at Howard University Hospital. His death was announced by ...
Why Are So Many Female Veterans Unemployed?
Kelly Wallace of CNN is reporting that the unemployment rate for female veterans who have been discharged since September 11, 2001, was 9.3% in 2013, versus about 8% for male vets, according to a report from the Disabled American ...
Loretta Lynch Expected to be Next Attorney General
CNN is reporting that President Obama has nominated Loretta Lynch to be the next United States Attorney General. If confirmed, Lynch will succeed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced that he would be stepping down fro...
Lupita Nyong’o Opposes VA Minor League Baseball Stadium
The Associated Press is reporting that “Twelve Years a Slave” actress Lupita Nyong’o is opposing the building of a minor league baseball stadium in what was once the center of Richmond, Virginia’s flourishi...