Tonight we’re taking a close look at your finances with financial literacy activist Hill Harper who is on a mission to help people gain positive financial momentum Also, Karen Washington discusses the seeds she’s been sowing since 1985 to grant…
Tonight our Chasing the Dream initiative on poverty, justice and economic opportunity in America takes us to the Bronx and Brooklyn where local nonprofits and the medical community are teaming up to bridge this divide and provide accurate information about…
Pre-pandemic, 10% of Connecticut's workforce was in restaurants. Since COVID-19 at least 600 of the state’s restaurants have closed and tens of thousands remain unemployed. For those still open, the road ahead is still uncertain. In our Roads to Recovery…
Tonight, New York City Council Member, and 2021 Democratic candidate for Bronx Borough President, Vanessa Gibson joins us to discuss what she’s doing to ensure Black and Latino communities are not frozen out of the vaccine distribution process. Also, we…
Two tech savvy sisters from Jersey City launched Little Apple Academy, a virtual service that teaches coding for free.
As New Jersey residents still wait for unemployment benefits, businesses don't expect to go back to normal even as the state reopens.
Even in the best of times, before a global pandemic stopped the world, it was tough to be a renter in New Jersey.
After releasing its annual report on the state of NYC housing, the NYU Furman Center brought together experts from across the country to discuss eviction and affordable housing during this "triple pandemic" of COVID-19, increasing economic instability, and growing criticism…
In “normal” times, students around the world stress themselves out to receive good grades at school. Now educators are wrestling with whether to give grades. Some feel grades should not be given during at-home learning, while others feel grades are…
The Paycheck Protection Program or PPP provides federally-backed forgivable loans to businesses whose revenues may be impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. According to the Center for Responsible Lending, little of the $659 billion fund has made it to Latino and…