Which budget cuts are killing our communities?
NBC NEWS - For cities and rural towns across the country, as well as nonprofits like Baltimore Reads, officials are struggling to maintain programs offered to low- and moderate-income residents...
Can blacks survive a fall off the 'fiscal cliff'?
theGRIO REPORT - The White House Thursday released a fact sheet illustrating the importance of resolving the debate of the "fiscal cliff" for African-Americans, showing black families could see their taxes rise by up $4,500...
Obama insistent on tax hikes for wealthy in 'fiscal cliff' deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has laid out its vision for pulling back from the looming 'fiscal cliff' and now demands that opposition Republicans get specific about their plan to prevent what many economists predict would mean a return to recession and spiking unemployment in a still-fragile U.S. economy...
Do minority banks still matter?
Besides the recession, other experts say minority banks are failing because they aren’t needed.
theGrio and CNBC Market Update
VIDEO - This week, a look at the earnings reports will gauge consumer spending. Reports will come from Barnes and Noble, Tiffany's and Kroger. There will also be data on GDP, income and spending and home prices...
Census: New gauge shows 49.7 million poor in US
WASHINGTON (AP) - The ranks of America's poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on a new census measure that takes into account medical costs and work-related expenses...
Pastors to fight black-run banks foreclosing on black churches
A group of Los Angeles pastors are protesting the foreclosure proceedings on a number churches, to be executed by a black-owned bank that was created to serve a once-segregated black population.
Obama: Wealthy must see higher taxes under plan
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama made his first public comments Friday since the victory speech after his re-election, setting the tone for upcoming tense talks with congressional Republicans on avoiding the so-called 'fiscal cliff'...
What is the 'fiscal cliff' anyway?
WASHINGTON (AP) - So just what is this 'fiscal cliff' that has the financial markets rattled and economists and policymakers alike in a tizzy over the potential for sending the economy into another tailspin?...
Artur Davis: GOP lost by focusing 'exclusively on the economy'
theGRIO REPORT - Artur Davis, who made headlines this year when he switched political parties and endorsed Mitt Romney at the RNC, is weighing in on the president's re-election.
