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A little more than one year ago I wrote a column about the year 2024. The emphasis I made was that the ancient Mayans did not make predictions as much as they made calculations that have withstood the test of time and have proven to be unerringly accurate. For some odd reason I have been [...]
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I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally. Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants. The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around 3:00 p.m. For me, the [...]
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When I came up with the idea for this program, I figured I could together a group of Republicans and have a serious discussion about why the party has not succeeded among Latinos, and looks poised to do even worse in the years to come. As a guy who covers politics I figured we could [...]
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Drive through the heart of any African American community and you will find a street, avenue, or boulevard named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Very often, these thoroughfares were once thriving and vibrant corridors of black culture and commerce. Today, typically, they are filled with shuttered homes and boarded-up businesses. The current [...]
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By Victor Corral, Program Manager, Insight Center for Community Economic Development The U.S. economy needs immigrants. According to the Center for American Progress, if we passed immigration reform that included legalization, there would be an estimated $1.5 trillion boost to U.S. GDP over 10 years. On the other hand, they note that pursuing an “enforcement-only” [...]
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Outside of Bank of America’s former headquarters in San Francisco, there is a sculpture that locals have dubbed a “banker’s heart.” The NAACP has come under fire for its “partnership” with cold-hearted Wells Fargo, which is being sued by states and municipalities for discriminatory and predatory mortgage lending practices. Up until a few weeks ago, [...]
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Earlier this week, facing a $53 million dollar budget deficit, the City of Cleveland’s Public School district announced it would be losing nearly 10% of its entire staff, resulting in 800 layoffs and the loss of 545 teachers. Losing more than 800 staff will be devastating to a high need district (in which 100% of [...]
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Article also written by Christy Rogers The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) securities fraud case against Goldman Sachs seems to indicate that Wall Streeters care more about their own paychecks than that of their investors — a practice that Michael Lewis brought home not only recently with The Big Short, but over 20 years [...]
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The National Action Network held its 12th annual convention last week in New York City. I attended the first day, but missed the black leadership forum, “Measuring the Movement.” Broadcast live on TV One, the forum was “designed to determine and commit to significant and measurable goals that will advance the standing of African Americans [...]
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Originally posted on Psychology Today Does the election of Barack Obama mark a major shift in the Western World from the Faustian dream of always having more? Remember old Dr. Faust, the mad genius who was driven by an insatiable striving for worldly knowledge, power, and wealth, even at the cost of his own soul. [...]
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