theGrio, CNBC Market Update

Shartia Brantley

VIDEO - Investors had quite a few economic reports to sift through last week, but all eyes were on the jobs report...

Obama signs student loan, road-building bill

Ken Thomas, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says a bill to keep construction workers on the job and prevent a spike in interest rates on new loans to college students 'will make a real difference' for millions of Americans.

Can VCAP's 'Pitch Night' put us back to work?

Shartia Brantley

theGRIO REPORT - TheGrio recently spoke to members of the Venture Capital Access Program or VCAP© to discuss their highly anticipated Pitch Night, which was held on June 27th in New York City...

Obama: Economy has to grow 'even faster'

Ben Feller, Associated PRess

POLAND, Ohio (AP) - A sobering economic snapshot intensified the presidential campaign on Friday as President Barack Obama rolled through two vote-rich battleground states and Republican Mitt Romney fended off conservative complaints about his plan for winning...

Romney blames Obama for sluggish job growth

Steve Peoples, Associated Press

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says the nation's ongoing sluggish job growth is unacceptable...

Why won't unemployment go down?

theGrio

theGRIO Q&A - For a closer look at the new jobs report, which showed the black unemployment rate up to 14.4 percent, theGrio reached out to Algernon Austin, director of the Race, Ethnicity and the Economy program at the liberal-leaning Washington-based Economic Policy Institute...

Black unemployment up in June

Perry Bacon Jr.

theGRIO REPORT - Overall unemployment remained at 8.2 percent in June, but the jobless rate for African Americans increased by almost a point to 14.4 percent, the Department of Labor announced Friday in its monthly employment report.