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Report: Disparities in Higher Education for Blacks

As the U.S. government works to overhaul the nation’s financial system and contemplates bailing out its top automakers, a recent independent study highlights what it calls “the uneven distribution of higher education opportunity and achievement in the United States,” suggesting many current and future college students may need a lifeline of their own.

Taking It To The Next Level

In 1999, Teresa Norton came to a crossroads: turn away customers or expand her business. It wasn’t an easy decision. Norton, president of NEI Inc., a document imaging and data...

Health Coverage After Job Loss

When Byron Wesson of Dayton, Ohio, lost his job as a manufacturing engineer at Delphi Corp. after the automotive parts supplier outsourced Wesson’s position to a plant in Mexico, he joined 1.3 million people left unemployed last year as a result of layoffs. He also joined 46 million Americans struggling without health insurance. Currently residing in Dallas, his family gets by with a discount drug card from the neighborhood pharmacy, free health clinics, and, if necessary, the county hospital. “In the back of my mind, I know we’re going to have to do something,” says 47-year-old Wesson. “We’re on borrowed time.”

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