Finance

Join Urban League of Rochester President and CEO, Dr. Seanelle Hawkins for a extensive report on the effect of COVID-19, Employment, Racial Injustice and more. During National Urban League’s 2021 State of Black America report, “The New Normal: Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive,” Thursday July 15th at starting at 2pm. The Event will stream on @NatUrbanLeague’s Facebook, […]

The Child Tax Credit Payment is coming July 15th. Some families could get up to $3,600 per kid over the course of this year and next. Parents with an income of less than $150,000 (married and filing jointly) will get a max of $300 for each child under the age of 6 and $250 for […]

Would you like to have extra day-off this weekend? What about every weekend? Yep, cutting the 5 day work week down to 4 days? Researchers in Iceland have found that a four-day work week, without a pay cut, improved workers’ well-being and productivity. For four years, researchers tracked 2,500 employees whoreduced their workweek to 35 […]

Saturday, Maryland lost many court battles trying to end uneomplyment programs. Due to the losses, Maryland will continue to pay residents unemployment benefits including the $300 federal supplement. CNN reported: “Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, announced last month that he was terminating the three pandemic benefits measures on July 3 in order to spur more people to […]

The minimum wage for fast-food workers in the state of New York has now jumped to $15 an hour. New York City’s fast food minimum wage was already at $15 an hour while the rest of the state were at $14.50 since December. Right now is the perfect time to jump on these jobs while […]

CFO Allen Weisselberg and Donald Trump’s family business are expected to face criminal charges today for allegedly paying employees off the books to avoid taxes. Amongst this, the Trump Organization is said to have paid for cars, apartments, and private school tuition. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus […]

2020 was a terrible year for just about everybody………… but not for scammers! Senior citizens lost almost $1 billion in scams last year.  According to an FBI report released this week. A total of 105,301 people over the age of 65 were scammed, with an average loss of $9,175, and almost 2,000 older Americans lost more […]

Score one for the student athletes over the NCAA in college sports. The Supreme Court ruling will end the NCAA’s nationwide limits on education-related benefits athletes can receive for playing college sports. Athletes playing Division I men’s or women’s basketball or Bowl Subdivision football will be able to receive benefits from their schools that include cash or […]

Cryptocurrency has been one of the biggest things people around the world have been investing in with Bitcoin being one of the popular Crypto Currencies. El Salvador has just became the first country in the world to recognize Bitcoin as a legal tender. Earlier this week of El Salvador passed the law after the country’s […]

At a Bitcoin conference Saturday, June 5th, President Nayib Bukele announced in a recording that he would send proposed legislation to El Salvador’s congress to change the country’s legal tender to cryptocurrency. Bukele also mentioned that El Salvador partnered with Strike, a digital finance company to come up with the decision. Strike CEO Jack Mallers […]