Color Of Money

BPT Despite the earning power of today’s women, many still shy away from investing and long-term planning. One of the reasons may be a lack of confidence. A 2014 report by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that half of women say they are not confident about the ability to retire comfortably. “There’s no…

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BPT The fun chaos of the holidays is right around the corner. Family gatherings to plan, delicious meals to prepare, gifts to find and purchase, and a house to decorate … the list goes on! With entertaining season approaching at warp speed, it’s time to get your home spruced up and looking like new. Your…

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In letter to ALDI’s President, Casey urges company to keep Bottom Dollar stores open, protect jobs Washington, DC- Last week, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that he has urged Aldi to protect 1,600 Pennsylvania jobs as it prepares to acquire Bottom Dollar Grocery Stores at the end of the year. Bottom Dollar has 46…

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By Wendell P. Simpson According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the employment situation in the U.S. improved substantially in every way for almost every group of Americans except for African Americans. While Black employment between September and October fell by 41,000, the employment picture for all Americans aged 16 or older rose between…

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By Charles D. Ellison dallas morning news Is this a recovering economy or not? That’s one of the great, persistent mysteries stumping modern economists and pundits. Especially for African-Americans, the answer seems to be no. Each month might reveal a gradually dipping unemployment rate, suggesting that it’s all good. The rate dropped steadily from 9.2…

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 The Aldi supermarket chain, known as a low-priced quality grocery leader, will host three hiring events to recruit for 50 manager trainee positions for its existing stores in the Philadelphia, New Jersey and Lehigh Valley areas. The events will be held on Tuesday, December 2, Tuesday, December 9 and Thursday, December 11, Opportunities include to…

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Community College of Philadelphia has developed an innovative non-credit  course to serve the food truck and food cart industry and widen the path to possibilities for their own culinary art graduates eying entrepreneurship.  The non-credit Mobile Food Management: Introduction to Food Truck Entrepreneurship course, which began in Fall 2014, is among the first of its…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Shawn Bullard By Kiarra Solomon  @by_kiarra Philadelphia native Shawn Bullard was making financial plays even before he joined the NFL’s San Diego Chargers as their outside linebacker from 2005-08. Before he even graduated from Temple University, he decided to invest in real estate during his senior year. His first investment property was on…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  by Flickr/cbgrfx123 By Bryce Covert  thinkprogress.com The Container Store pays its 6,000 employees an average of $48,000 a year, according to CEO Kip Tindell’s new book Uncontainable. As he told Business Insider, “That’s a lot of money for a retail sales clerk.” In fact, median pay for retail sales workers is just $21,410 a…

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blacknews.com Nationwide — A USA Today report says that only 2 percent of technology workers at seven major tech companies in Silicon Valley are Black, and just 3 percent are Hispanic. This is so despite the fact that thousands of Black and Hispanic students graduate with computer science and computer engineering degrees every year from…

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