Tag Archives: Wealth For Life Principles

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#WealthforLife Wednesdays: 4 Steps To Put Your Savings On Autopilot

You're more likely to save if you don't have to think about it

This week’s #WealthForLife focuses on strategies to make your savings goals more attainable.

By LaToya M. Smith

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#WealthforLife Wednesdays: How to Create a Realistic Budget

Stop fudging the numbers. Identify how you’re spending your money and then give your hard earned cash a specific assignment.

Developing a budget is an essential part of your wealth-building plan.

By LaToya M. Smith

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Wealth Gap Between Whites and Blacks, Hispanic Households Widens

A new study reveals harsh realities

Do you see this gap ever getting tighter?

By Darren Sands

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Giving Back Against All Odds

To fund the foundation, Carter took $90,000 from a home equity loan and borrowed from…

By Sakina P. Spruell

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How To Close The Wealth Gap: Step 1

It may take generations to do it. But it starts with making better decisions with the money we have.

The Black wealth gap must be closed. Here’s how we begin to make steps towards…

By Alfred Edmond, Jr.

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The Black Enterprise Wealth For Life Principles

Step-by-step guidelines to responsible saving, investing, and spending to build wealth and pass it on to future generations

The 10 Black Enterprise Wealth for Life principles are meant to serve as a step-by-step…

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Using Wealth For Life As A Way of Life

We asked; you answered: Our poll reveals respondents embrace debt reduction, savings

Our results are in! Last week, we asked how you’d spend $2,000 if selected as…

By Derek T. Dingle

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POLL: What Would You Do If B.E. Gave You $2,000?

Enter our Financial Fitness Contest and you may have to make that decision. Tell us how you'd use the cash prize.

For a decade, Black Enterprise has awarded scores of our readers $2000 to kick-start their…

By Derek T. Dingle

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Why Black Enterprise Gave Away A Quarter Million Dollars

We've awarded $250,000--and counting--through our Financial Fitness Contest. Enter now and choose Wealth for Life!

As editor-in-chief of BLACK ENTERPRISE, one of the perks of my job is giving our…

By Derek T. Dingle

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Celebrating Black Business

Frederick E. Jordan and John William Templeton crusade to raise awareness with a month of recognition in August

Frederick E. Jordan didn’t have many financing options when he started his engineering and construction…

By Jason Evers Roberson

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