TJMS

Tom: You are joining us this morning to talk about the recent Fed decision on interest rates, is that right? Mellody:  That’s right, Tom Joyner.…

Starbucks is on a mission to recruit a lost generation of America’s young, poor and unemployed to correct a decades-long pattern of neglect in corporate…

  Starting today, McDonald’s workers are earning more money. About 90-thousand of the fast-food giant workers are earning an average of eight-dollars and 25 cents an hour. That’s one dollar more than the federal minimum wage. McDonald’s announced at the beginning of spring that it expects to increase the average pay for U.S. workers to more […]

News One

Obama says he is motivated by the fact that Americans are working longer days without due compensation.

TJMS

  Mellody is president of Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based money management firm that serves individual investors and retirement plans through its no-load mutual funds and…

TJMS

  Tom: You are joining us this morning with some news on wages. Mellody: I am, Tom. Last week, the labor department released the official…

TJMS

  Tom: Today we are talking about the minimum wage – again! What’s the latest, Mellody? Mellody: It certainly is a topic that keeps popping up,…

TJMS

  Mellody is president of Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based money management firm that serves individual investors and retirement plans through its no-load mutual funds and…

TJMS

So there was a big concert in support of women this past weekend in London. The Sound of Change concert, a charitable event promoting education,…

TJMS

Roland Martin talks with the Washington Post‘s Michelle Singletary about The Pew Study which showed 40% of women are the primary breadwinners in the home.

Entertainment News

A judge has ordered Charlie Sheen’s former bosses to garnish $55,000 a month for child support from any payments they make to him. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Hank Goldberg on Friday approved a request by Brooke Mueller Sheen to garnish any payments Warner Bros. Television makes to her ex-husband. The former couple was divorced […]