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...
Why Romney ♥'s the welfare debate
OPINION - Is Mitt Romney trying to stoke white resentment to beat President Obama?...
theGrio and CNBC Market Update
VIDEO - Besides Facebook shares closing below 20 dollars a share, economic data was the focus for investors last week...
Poll: Obama's lead over Romney is growing
theGRIO REPORT - A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests that although Americans are still pessimistic about the economy their faith that President Obama can handle the country’s economy over his Republican opponent Mitt Romney is growing...
Obama: 'I'm not the president of black America'
theGRIO REPORT - In a recent interview with Black Enterprise magazine, President Barack Obama bristled at criticism that he has received, from some circles, about his supposed lack of action on behalf of black businesses...
Obama: Too many people still looking for work
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says new jobs figures released Friday show there are too many people looking for work...
Midwest drought, rising food prices worry black businesses
theGRIO REPORT - As the worst drought in decades grips 26 U.S. states, business owners in affected areas and beyond are growing concerned about what it could mean for their bottom lines...
Jobs report presents mixed blessing for Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama got new figures Friday to buttress his argument that he's presiding over steady, if slow, economic growth. But the government's report that the overall rate of unemployment actually crept up to 8.3 percent allows Republican rival Mitt Romney to keep pressure on Obama to defend his record...
