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Who you spend your time with matters. There’s a saying, “show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” That’s not trite, or egotistical, nor it is social climbing, it’s meaningful – not because it matters who your friends actually are, but who they are and what they have to contribute to the world […]

Nation, NewsOne Now, Politics

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” Friday to discuss the President’s announcement Thursday of his ‘”My Brother’s Keeper” initiative and creating employment opportunities for minority males. Listen to the Perez’s full remarks below. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, weekdays at 7 a.m. EST and watch at 9 a.m. EST on TV […]

Nation, NewsOne Now

Jesse Jackson, Sr. is planning to hold New York City’s new mayor Bill de Blasio to his campaign promise of a fairer city. It was reported that the civil rights icon met Thursday with de Blasio regarding the mayor’s attendance at his 17th Annual Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit, to be held Feb. […]

Biz/Media, NewsOne Now

Jesse Jackson, Sr. has set his eyes on addressing economic inequality for black Americans. He joined Roland Martin and NewsOne New Tuesday to discuss the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s upcoming 17th annual Wall Street Project, a summit to address the declining state of the economy for blacks and develop solutions. From the Rainbow PUSH Coalition: The Rainbow PUSH […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) increased its efforts last spring to bolster its support of minority business owners with a grant competition, and it reported record job creation for those businesses for fiscal year 2012. The MBDA’s good work in that arena was highlighted once more after a record-setting fiscal […]

Major U.S. retailers Kohl’s and Target plan on making it a happy holiday for many folks around the country by hiring more than 100,000 holiday employees, reports The Wall Street Journal. SEE ALSO: 67 Percent Say They Are Romney’s 47 Percent Although Target, one of America’s favorite department stores, plans to employ 80,000 to 90,000 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vilified on the campaign trail by Republicans, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night with a State of the Union address designed to reframe the election-year debate on his terms, suggesting a stark contrast with his opponents on the economy and promising fairness and help for hurting families. RELATED: […]

WASHINGTON — Flanked by business executives, President Barack Obama urged employers Wednesday to create jobs in the U.S. rather than ship them overseas and offered to propose tax incentives to help them. “I’m incredibly optimistic about our prospects,” Obama said about the economy after meeting with more than a dozen corporate and small business leaders […]

WASHINGTON  — On Veterans Day eve, an uncharacteristically unified Senate emphatically passed a bill to help unemployed veterans and government contractors that includes the first, small slivers of President Barack Obama’s jobs agenda that he is likely to sign into law. Thursday’s 95-0 vote gave lawmakers the opportunity to fly home to holiday events and […]

WASHINGTON  — Republicans in the Senate Thursday dealt President Barack Obama the third in a string of defeats on his stimulus-style jobs agenda, blocking a $60 billion measure for building and repairing infrastructure like roads and rail lines. Supporters of the failed measure said it would have created tens of thousands of construction jobs and […]

WASHINGTON — Pressing for passage of the transportation piece of his stalled jobs bill, President Barack Obama on Wednesday suggested lawmakers are out of touch and urged them to fall in line with the big majority of the public that he said supports him. Even God wants to see the unemployed put back to work, […]

JAMESTOWN, N.C. — President Barack Obama appealed anew Tuesday for Americans to put pressure on Republican members of Congress to support his jobs legislation, declaring that “we are in this together.” And Obama said he hit the road to take his case directly to the people for a simple reason: “I’m the president.”On the second-day […]