Color Of Money

Tax season is approaching, and while you’re wondering how your tax return will affect your bank account, you might also want to consider how it could influence another aspect of your financial well-being – your credit score.

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Let me say this. If you look at brother Obama’s, President Obama’s, track record before he entered the White House, you could not have reasonably expected him to be a progressive. He never said he was one.

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Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th President of Bennett College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, this brilliant economist and author has been described by Dr. Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.”

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I have been involved in the push for tax reform in Philadelphia for much of the past decade and half. Winning many reforms to improve Philadelphia’s ability to attract and retain residents and jobs has been very gratifying for me.

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President of CBS News and Sports Sean McManus has announced that CBS News is establishing the Harold Dow Professorship at the School of Journalism and Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University (FAMU), which is the first historically black university to have an accredited journalism program.

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President Barack Obama announced a two-year pay freeze for federal employees Monday, and warned the American public that the move is the first of many difficult decisions that must be made to reduce the nation’s mounting deficits.

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A half dozen African American contractors are worried they won’t be considered for a piece of the $2.6 billion high-speed train between Orlando International Airport and Tampa. Eight major teams have formed to bid on the lucrative project to design, build, operate and maintain the system…

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When thousands were gathered for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, Dori Maynard faced a moment of insanity. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, was thrown out of a Hampton Inn in the nation’s capital for reasons that are still unexplained.

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Credit card companies, auto dealerships and mortgage bankers are three common examples of types of lenders that will check your credit score before deciding how much they are willing to lend you and at what interest rate.

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The places are ranked based on the number of data breaches involving Social Security numbers from January 2009 to October 2010. What’s most disturbing is that you must disclose your Social Security number if you want to receive services from most of those places.

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