Cierra Brown is trying to do all she can on her own, but it rarely feels like she’s doing enough.
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Business leaders seek to combat poverty through improving education, creating jobs | The Philadelphia Tribune
Ayana Jones Tribune Staff Writer, The Philadelphia Tribune [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Chamber of Commerce for a Greater Philadelphia is advocating for an inclusive neighborhood growth agenda to help address the city’s stagnant poverty rate. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “The purpose of the PHL Neighborhood Growth Project is to focus on job creation across Philadelphia,” Yvette A. Núñez, vice president […]
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Michigan drops conviction box from job, license applications | Michigan Chronicle
David Eggert , Michigan Chronicle Formerly incarcerated New Yorkers rally with VOCAL to ban the box outside City Hall. (VOCAL) Featured Image [dropcap]LANSING[/dropcap], MICH. – Gov. Rick Snyder is ordering the state to no longer ask job applicants and people seeking certain occupational licenses to check a box if they have been convicted of a […]
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The Black Struggle for Technology Jobs | The Atlantic
In Atlanta and other racially segregated cities, the education system is stacked against African Americans competing for STEM careers. If Amazon picks the city for its second headquarters, things could get even worse.
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The Supreme Court Justice Who Forever Changed Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
Justice Lewis Powell’s ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.
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MALVEAUX: Behind the Black Unemployment Rate | The Washington Informer
Would 45 and his minions be celebrating if Whites had the same employment situation as African Americans?
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Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Expansion of Overtime Pay for Millions of Workers
“Employers that made big changes in their workforce ahead of the rule’s Dec. 1 effective date—either by raising managers’ salaries to the newly set threshold for overtime pay or eliminating job categories like assistant manager—say they aren’t yet planning to reverse course, while others are taking a wait-and-see approach,” the Wall Street Journal.
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Millions Are About to Get a Raise for Overtime Work, and Republicans Are Plotting to Take It Away
It was just this spring that millions of Americans learned they were in for a big raise courtesy of the Obama administration’s long-awaited updating of the federal rules for overtime pay.
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The Forgotten Providers
Home-care workers are increasingly vital to the future of our health-care system, but the problems they face are rooted in a racist and sexist history.
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Illinois Has The Nation’s Highest African-American Jobless Rate For Second Straight Quarter
For the second quarter in a row, Illinois has earned the troubling distinction of having the nation’s highest African-American unemployment rate, shows a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
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