Mint Images – Tim Robbins The racial wealth gap — the disparity in median wealth between the different races — is a persistent struggle, and it appears to be worsening, especially between White and Black Americans. According to a recent study by McKinsey & Co., Black Americans can expect to earn up to $1 million less than White Americans
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By Sherri Snelling, Next Avenue Contributor Getty When Harvard Business School published its 2019 Caring Companies report, finding that 3 out of 4 employees are also caregivers, the researchers couldn’t have predicted that the workplace caregiving crisis was about to collide with the coronavirus crisis. Nor that the combination would accelerate a sea change in
Sujata Yalamanchili Sujata Yalamanchili Buffalo, New York, has been called the “queen city.” Yet other women of power grace its streets, such as Sujata Yalamanchili, a partner in the Hodgson Russ law firm. She is the firm’s real estate practice leader as well as its retail sector industry leader. At Hodgson Russ, Yalamanchili has served on the board of directors, and
Ground leases can provide great investment opportunities for people who want to deploy capital in real estate while never having to think about property management. The investor becomes the landlord under a long-term lease, often lasting 99 years. The tenant pays every conceivable cost related to the property and handles all management, and signs leases
A man walks past shelves of Coca-Cola bottles and cans at a shopping mall in Lagos, Nigeria November 5, 2019. Temilade Adelaja | Reuters Coca Cola on Friday announced it will be pausing advertising on all social media. The company clarified it was not joining the official boycott, but said “we are pausing.” “There is
People walk by a Nike store in New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Nike — The sportswear maker slid more than 5% after the company reported a surprise loss for the fourth quarter as sales slumped 38% year-over-year. Nike lost 51 cents per share, compared with
A van is said to have crashed into the Lamborghini on Thursday afternoon. West Yorkshire Police A Lamborghini was destroyed in a collision on a highway in West Yorkshire in the U.K., just 20 minutes after the car left the showroom. The car is said to have been a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder, which can fetch
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that he’s grown worried about the stock market’s ability to continue its robust rally from the coronavirus-driven bottom. “I’m feeling uncertain here after a very big run, fourth-quarter 1999-like,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box,” a reference to the run-up in equity prices that preceded the 2000 dot-com bubble bust. Cramer’s comments came after
MoMo Productions The secret to building sustainable income in retirement is right in front of you — and the IRS has had it all along. Retirees generally know all about required minimum distributions. This is the annual withdrawal that you must take from your individual retirement account and 401(k) plans after you turn 70½ —
By Sarah McKinney Gibson, Next Avenue Contributor John Frick and students Courtesy of John Frick While the pandemic has put in-person mentoring on indefinite hold, a growing number of older adults are finding virtual ways to make and broaden meaningful intergenerational connections. Here are five of their stories: Ervan Caesar: Mentoring Teens in the Youth
Thanks to decades of spending, many local police departments now resemble well-armed military squads. But budget shortfalls and protests will likely force a change. Among Delaware’s beach towns, Dewey Beach, sandwiched between artsy Rehoboth to the north and family-friendly Bethany Beach to the south, is known as a place to party after a day of
Might the flexibility and adaptability of brand new office buildings, such as Zero Irving in New … [+] York City, help make them safer environments for employees returning from COVID-19 lockdowns? Davis Brody Bond Lockdowns are ending and Americans are slowly returning to their old workday haunts, aka their offices. It’d be great if they
The White House coronavirus task force is slated to hold its first news briefing in nearly two months Friday, as new coronavirus cases continue to surge across large parts of the country. Vice President Mike Pence will lead the briefing, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, but the briefing will take place at
Shoppers, some wearing PPE (personal protective equipment), of a face mask or covering as a precautionary measure against COVID-19, queue to enter a recently re-opened Nike store at Gunwharf Keys shopping centre in Portsmouth, southern England on June 16, 2020. Adrian Dennis | AFP | Getty Images Even Nike, often lauded as one of the strongest
Traders wear masks as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues New York, May 27, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:57 am: Here are Friday’s biggest analyst calls of the day: Amazon, Qualcomm, Snap,
Biologist Beth Cameron spent nearly two decades preparing for a biological threat like Covid-19. Most notably, in 2014, Cameron, then the Obama Administration’s director of countering biological threats, helped create a “pandemic playbook” to guide the White House in handling a pandemic. They knew one was eventually coming. “[W]e starting working on the playbook following the
A man in a surgical mask walks by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after more cases of coronavirus were confirmed in New York City, New York, U.S., March 10, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Next week brings an end, mercifully, to the first half of 2020. That’s the good news. The bad news: Wall
Hanna Budzko 1. Technical writer Nycretoucher | Getty Images Average annual pay: $68,640 Number of job openings as of June 10: 2,308 2. Financial analyst Andrew Brookes Average annual pay: $67,900 Number of job openings as of June 10: 5,242 3. Proposal writer WavebreakMedia | Getty Images Average annual pay: $67,047 Number of job openings
According to the StreetWise Retirement Confidence Index released in May, 26% of respondents said they would postpone retirement due to the coronavirus. Or more specifically, due to the economic conditions it’s caused. That’s not surprising, given the level of fear surrounding both the pandemic and the financial uncertainty that have gripped the nation and the
Getty As I reported earlier, as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) re-opens, it has some catching up to do: The estimated backlog of unopened IRS mail stands at 11 million. According to the Taxpayer Advocate, during the shutdown, the IRS generated more than 20 million notices; however, these notices were not mailed to taxpayers. Think about
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