Ask Sheree: How to React to Racially Insensitive Issues at Work
Here's how to respond when you feel singled out, uncomfortable or unsure of your emotional reaction when it comes to a sensitive subject at work.
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Small Businesses Say Raise The Minimum Wage
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and business advocates call for renewed focus and legislation to pay Americans wages that they can live on
The Homebuyers Toolkit: Money Attitudes and Budgeting
Last weekend I attended The Money Conference for Women in Hartford, CT. A 26-year-old woman stood up and shared how she is more than $60,000 in debt as a result of student loans and credit cards. She makes about $40,000 a year working for a non-profit and one of her immediate goals was to purchase a home. The keynote speaker, Michelle Singletary, a nationally syndicated columnist, told her to pump her breaks and focus on paying off her debt first. Her story is all too familiar. A lot of people want to take on more debt before addressing their current issues.
Our Choice: To Empower
My family made a choice, publicly, to spend as much money as possible with Black business owners and professionals. We made this decision and make this sacrifice because we believe Black people have too much talent and spend too much money for their community to look the way it does and for its families to suffer the way they do. We urge our community to practice self-help economics.
Invest in Hot TIPS
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the investment landscape has been long on turbulence and short on stability recently. It’s in times like these that investors often seek out shelter in sound, conservative investments such as TIPS, or Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, U.S. government bonds that go up and down in value to keep pace with inflation. Peace of mind has been a luxury of late.