By Lee A. Daniels
The federal government’s jobs report for April is due out Thursday, and all expectations are that it will continue the recent skein of data indicating the economy has stopped the frightful two-year-long hemorrhaging of jobs and begun a modest climb toward recovery.

By Seth Freed Wessler
After an afternoon of long-winded speeches from both sides of the aisle, the Senate voted to move forward with the extension of unemployment benefits.

By C. Nicole Mason
Healthcare reform—check. Overhauling America’s economic infrastructure and financial regulatory system—in process. Immigration reform—in the pipeline. Closing the educational achievement gap—working on it. Shuttering Guantanamo Bay—delayed until further review. Ending the war in Iraq and repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell—both on the radar.
Obama won election on a reformist platform. His ambitious agenda, coupled [...]

By C. Nicole Mason
If the average single black woman went to the bank and withdrew her wealth, she would only withdraw $100.00. And nearly half of single black women have zero or negative wealth—meaning if they inserted their cards into an ATM machine, it would more than likely be rejected.

By Doug Miller
Current changes in credit card regulations might lead to an exchange such as this…

By Lee A. Daniels
Fourteen months into the Obama Presidency, it’s become more and more obvious that the spectacular example of the First Family sketches only a partial portrait of the present and possible future of Black America. The rest of the portrait—better to call it a mosaic—is far more complex and, in some areas, far less sunny.

By Jackie Jones
Black folks may be easy marks for online and mail-in gold businesses.

By C. Nicole Mason

On the one-year anniversary of the stimulus bill, the Administration will do much to convince us that it is indeed working. However, it’s going to take more than colorful pie charts and grandiose projections to ease the anxiety and the angst gripping communities.

By Jackie Jones
Bad lending practices by banks are increasingly eating up disposable income, not only hurting individual consumers, but also affecting the nation’s overall economic health by diverting funds that could be spent on consumer products to servicing debt.

By Leslie Proll
When President Obama took office last January, hopes were high that the right wing’s long stronghold on the federal courts had come to an end. LDF and other civil rights advocates were eager for a new day when fair and impartial judges would once again be nominated and confirmed in large numbers.