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Unemployed Blacks More Resilient During Job Search than Whites The so-called recovery of the US economy has not been equally kind to everyone. Even as the unemployment…

via: cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Borrowers with some federally insured mortgages will be able to refinance into lower interest rate loans more easily and cheaply under a plan being unveiled Tuesday by the Obama administration. At a news conference scheduled later in the day, President Obama was set to announce that the Federal Housing […]

via: cnn.com (CNN) — Forty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban on interracial marriage, the rate of marriage across racial and ethnic lines in the United States is on the rise, according to a new study released Thursday. And while such “intermarriages” continue to grow, so too does public acceptance of […]

The number of people living in poverty has climbed to 14.3 percent of Americans, the highest rate since 1994.