theGrio and CNBC Market Update 9/17/12
VIDEO - There was quite a bit of data for investors to analyze last week...
21.4 percent of black families don't have bank accounts
WASHINGTON - A government survey shows about 821,000 U.S. households lost access to basic banking services between January 2009 and June 2011...
US poverty rate unchanged; record numbers persist
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau says the number of Americans in poverty stood at 15 percent in 2011 as the number of poor remained at record highs...
Obama gets grim job news; Romney pounces on it
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - His convention over, President Barack Obama ran smack into the harsh reality of a bleak new report on the nation's unemployment outlook Friday...
Black unemployment stays put as US rate falls
WASHINGTON (AP) - The black unemployment stayed stuck at exactly 14.1 percent, while African-American teen unemployment ticked up slightly from 36.6 percent to 37.9...
Obama: 'My fellow citizens, you were the change'
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Obama used his nationally televised speech closing out the Democratic National Convention to try to revive the excitement that powered his first run for the presidency...
Are black Americans worse off economically than four years ago?
Millions of African-Americans are worse off economically than four years ago, Bloomberg News writes, although many of the challenges they have faced long preceded President Obama...
theGrio and CNBC Market Update
VIDEO - Last week investors received some positive data the economy grew by 1.7 percent during the spring...
theGrio and CNBC Market Update
VIDEO - Investors had to parse fed, housing and jobs data last week...
Poverty remains largely absent from 2012 campaign debate
OPINION - With the ranks of the poor surging and much of the nation hobbled economically, officeholders can barely find the courage to acknowledge that poverty even exists...
