Finance

Mayor Lovely A. Warren has launched an Entrepreneur Resource Partner Enhancement Program. This program makes $1.5 million in grants available to six entrepreneur support organizations and six organizational coaches. The goal is to provide small businesses with case management support over a 24-month period. The organizations and coaches will help business identify funding and training […]

Apple will reportedly pay out a $133 million settlement to 34 states over its previous practice of slowing down older iPhones on purpose. States like California and Arizona were not okay with Apple’s lack of transparency about its iPhone battery problems that made the devices shutdown unexpectedly. Rather than letting users know that there was […]

Johnson & Johnson said they to increase the number of Black managers in the company by 50% within five years. The world’s biggest health company said it also would create college scholarships for Black students interested in science, business and health care. J&J is starting in house, where, Sneed said, Blacks make up just 7% […]

A new study found that black homeowners are twice as likely to lose their homes and have to return to renting than whites. Over a 30-year period stretching from 1984 to 2017, 10% of Black homeowners became renters again compared with 5% of whites. New research published in the journal “Demography” shows that gap is […]

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a decrease in students applying to college. According to Jenny Rickard CEO of the Common App, the number of students filing the Common Application for undergraduate is down 8% from this time last year. The number of students who have completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, (FAFSA) is […]

You have 1 year to clean up your debt collection issues. According to Consumer Reports, a new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will allow debt collectors to contact consumers via email, text message, and social media platforms. The ruling would permit collectors to place up to seven debt-collection phone calls per week […]

If you don’t normally file a tax return you still may be eligible for the Economic Impact Payment. The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline for people to register for a stimulus payment. But ONLY if you have not received one. The deadline is November 21, 2020, for people to register but again only […]

Looking to Change Your Career? Business social network LinkedIn has launched Career Explorer feature. Which displays careers job seekers can transition into by finding skills that overlap with their previous jobs. The tool ranks the skills in order of importance depending on the job position. LinkedIn users can also identify skills that they would need to […]