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To help you be informed and prepared when you go to cast your vote on Tuesday, November 2nd, for the next week until Election Day we are going to highlight important races with African-American candidates across the country and tell you where they stand, why the race matters, who their opponent is, what the key issues are and their chances of winning.
The dysfunctional relationship between some people and their money is not a money disorder. Instead, it is a manifestation of an underline issue which needs to be reconciled.
In less than five years, social media has revolutionized not only our communication culture but how we conduct business. The dizzying effect of unlimited—and sometimes unfettered—24-hour access to people and information has transformed the various tools into a game changer.
It was a collapse of epic proportions. The financial crisis in 2008 created an atmosphere of panic and fear not only on Wall Street but throughout the world as the bursting of a global housing bubble left financial institutions without liquidity. The Lehman Bros. bankruptcy heralded unprecedented failures for American and European banks despite governmental bailout efforts. Markets worldwide plummeted in the worst financial catastrophe since the Great Depression.
Many of us continue to be battered by hard times. Economists claim that the Great Recession is a memory. Well, tell that to the hundreds of individuals forced to pound the pavement trying to find a job—any job—or to the once middle-class families who now represent the “new poor†in today’s society. My question to them and to those facing similar circumstances: Do you see the glass as being half full or half empty?
