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The Secret to Their Success
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 12:04 in Magazine | viewed 1,240 times | 0 Comments
Phyllis Holly-Ward and her husband, Jorey Ward are enjoying the fruits of responsible money management. The Trenton, New Jersey, couple are a modern-day success story: a six-figure savings account; two self-sufficient college graduate sons, William, 29, and Phillip, 28; and,... (Continue reading)
5 Ways to Build Your Budget
Prior to November 2008, JaQuetta Garrison and her family enjoyed an annual household income of $80,000 and lived a comfortable upper middle-class lifestyle in their hometown of Lithonia, Georgia. The only budgeting they did was in their “mental budget book,”... (Continue reading)
College-Educated Blacks Hardest Hit by Unemployment
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 11:25 in Magazine | viewed 116 times | 0 Comments
College-educated white workers still had a relatively low unemployment rate of 3.8% as of March 2009, reports the Economic Policy Institute.... (Continue reading)
Black Girls 50% More Likely to Be Bulimic Than White Girls
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 11:23 in Magazine | viewed 123 times | 0 Comments
The eating disorder bulimia, characterized by reoccurring episodes of binging and purging, has been perceived as affecting privileged white teens.... (Continue reading)
Grad Rates Higher for Black Athletes
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 11:23 in Magazine | viewed 38 times | 0 Comments
Athletic departments are graduating black students at higher rates than universities as a whole, according to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.... (Continue reading)
Black Colleges Graduating Fewer Students
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 11:23 in Magazine | viewed 89 times | 0 Comments
Roughly 37% of black students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) finish a degree within six years. ... (Continue reading)
Surviving the Storm
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 11:17 in Magazine | viewed 67 times | 0 Comments
Toward the end of 2007, Jacqueline Jackson, a realtor in Orland Park, Illinois, was struck by how much her business had taken a tumble. She had sold more than $3 million in property the year before, but she says, “One... (Continue reading)
Is Now the Time to Buy Real Estate?
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 10:55 in Homeownership | viewed 3,828 times | 1 Comment
If you believe in the investment philosophy “buy low and sell high,” then you’re probably already starting to wonder if now is the right time to begin buying real estate. The market is flush with foreclosures (homes that have already... (Continue reading)
Small Is Beautiful
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 9:28 in Magazine | viewed 17,011 times | 0 Comments
When it came time for Mell Monroe and his wife, Angela Higginbotham Monroe, to refinance their mortgage earlier this year, the couple shopped around for attractive rates. One bank offered a nice enough loan, but there was a catch. The... (Continue reading)
A Perfect Fit
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 1:00 in Magazine | viewed 1,267 times | 2 Comments
Charles Turner used to daydream about owning a shoe store, a dream that would have fulfilled a design passion of his—and a need—since he often has difficulty finding shoes that fit both his liking and his size 13 feet. Turner,... (Continue reading)
