Harlem community group helps curb infant mortality
theGRIO REPORT - The North Manhattan Perinatal Partnership has led an effort that reduced the black infant mortality rate from 27.7 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 6.1 deaths in 2008...
Black church fights job crisis with faith
theGRIO REPORT - Across the country, hundreds of churches are hosting and organizing their own employment ministries...
Obama promotes job training as economic imperative
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - President Barack Obama says the growth of the U.S. economy will depend in part on training new workers for jobs in the manufacturing industry...
Obama expresses concern about slowing economy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president spoke about the new economic trouble in detail for the first time since a report late last week showed job growth had slowed sharply in May...
Groundhog Day for black unemployment
OPINION - I feel like Bill Murray every single month when I receive the monthly unemployment reports...
Unemployment rate rises
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department report offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas prices and natural disasters in Japan...
GM to add 2,500 jobs at Detroit-area factory
DETROIT (AP) - Not all the jobs will be new hires. GM has about 1,300 laid-off workers waiting to be recalled in the U.S...
10 tips to survive the ‘black mancession’
OPINION - Throughout history black men have always been dealt a bad hand and despite that we have always risen above it...
Black caucus takes challenges to White House
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Cleaver told TheGrio, "no president is always right. We have taken every president to task since Nixon in 1971, we can't stop now."...
Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week, reversing nearly all the sharp rise reported the previous week...
