President-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris announced additional members of the National Economic Council. DeMicia Inman Image: Karolina Grabowska The incoming White House Administration continues to grow as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris reveal additional members of their team. Monday, Biden announced additional members of the National Economic Council […]
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Wealth gap costs over last two decades: $2.7 trillion in Black income, $16 trillion to U.S. economy
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Yet even today, with all those credentials and as one of the leading executives on Wall Street,” wrote Raymond J. McGuire, Citi’s Vice Chairman and Chair of its Global Banking and Capital Markets, “I am still seen first as a six-foot-four, two-hundred-pound Black man wherever I go […]
Congressional Black Caucus Focuses on Economic Recovery of African Americans in COVID-19 Crisis
Several other provisions asked by members of the Congressional Black Caucus were an expansion of unemployment benefits to $600 per week in addition to the base max eligible for unemployment insurance, $15.5 billion in additional funding for SNAP, a temporary moratorium of 6 months for federal student loans and funding […]