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Diversity Continues to Challenge the Military

In 2008, Congress formed the Military Leadership Diversity Commission to analyze promotion rates for minorities in the military and develop strategies to make the armed forces more reflective of the nation’s diverse population. Today, African Americans make up 18.5% of enlistment, 9.5% of all officer corps, and 6% of the general officer corps, a marginal increase from last year. According to Clarence “C.J.” Johnson, principal director of the office of diversity management and equal opportunity at the Department of Defense, not much more can be expected after two years, particularly at the senior levels.

Finding Work That Makes a Difference
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Finding Work That Makes a Difference

Ky Adderley went from being a first-year teacher at age 26 to founding a charter school at age 30. Swiftly moving from teaching sixth graders and writing education policy, he was recruited in 2004 to become the Brooklyn, New York, chapter’s founding principal of KIPP-AMP, an acronym that stands for Knowledge is Power Program-Always Mentally Prepared, charter school.

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Protect Your Financial Future

Faruq Hunter, an entrepreneur with a growing business and family, bought life insurance partly because of a hard lesson he learned from his father, who left behind $40,000 in debt when he died. Now he is making sure he leaves behind not just enough money to cover burial expenses but an inheritance that will expand over generations to come.

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Kicking Bad Money Habits

While on their honeymoon 12 years ago, Tamela and Omar Martin mapped out their lives together. They talked openly about their goals, just as they had done as college sweethearts while attending Chicago’s Loyola University. “On our honeymoon we talked about what we both saw for the future,” recalls Tamela. After years of marriage, however, the Martins aren’t seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to their finances.

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Midterm Elections: A Test of Our Commitment

The commitment we made to support President Barack Obama as the right person to lead our nation did not end when we cast our votes two years ago; it was just beginning. On Tuesday, Nov. 2, we will have the first major test of our commitment when we vote in the first midterm elections since we elected Obama.

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