by Max Rivera | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Inflation
As polls show an uptick in support for the presumed Republican nominee, experts say the support for Trump is tied to inflation and a history of incumbents being held responsible for the nation’s economic woes, something that disproportionately affects Black voters....
by Laura Turbay | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Housing, Inflation
Imagine a frog in a pot of water. Someone raises the temperature and the frog acclimates to it. But the heat only keeps rising. That’s what inflation feels like to Kody Kohnen, a 22-year old senior at Texas A&M studying agricultural leadership, who explained...
by Anastasia Tomkin | May 24, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Retail
It is no secret that Black Americans are underrepresented as business owners. They make up about 12.4% of the US population, but Black business owners are only 2.4% of all employer-owned firms. And while Census data shows that the number of Black-owned businesses in...
by Elisa Muyl | May 21, 2024 | Featured, Uncategorized
Embed from Getty Images Kwan Yong Lee moved to North Dakota in 2013, after graduating with an economics PhD from Purdue University, to work at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He’s gotten pretty used to the cold, and likes that Grand Forks is safe, and...
by Jiana Smith | May 20, 2024 | Featured, Inflation, Retail, Trade
Kinani Ahmed, owner of Sextant Coffee Roasters in San Francisco, opened his roastery in 2014 with a goal of sharing the finest coffees of Ethiopia with others. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, that goal has become more and more expensive. The civil war in Ethiopia,...
by Elisa Muyl | May 6, 2024 | Employment, Featured
The US economy added fewer jobs than expected in April, signaling that months of surprising growth may finally be slowing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added 175,000 new jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations of around 240,000...
