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Which savings strategy works for you?

Sponsored by JPMorganChase Getting in the habit of saving money is important, as it helps lead to creating a financial cushion to cover future expenses. Saving is not easy, especially when everyday products are at an all-time high given recent years...

Immigration is taking center stage in Texas’ Senate race. Here’s what Colin Allred, Ted Cruz’s records show

(The Texas Tribune) – Unlike many Texas Democrats before him, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred wants to talk about the border.In particular, he wants to talk about how U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who he’s challenging this November, helped spike major bipartisan border...

Biden slams “extreme” U.S. Supreme Court, offers proposal for sweeping changes

(The Texas Tribune) – President Joe Biden on Monday called the U.S. Supreme Court “extreme” as he detailed his proposal for sweeping changes, including limiting justices to 18-year terms, during a speech to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Civil...

The number of available jobs in the U.S. is shrinking

(CNN) – Job opportunities are slowly disappearing in the U.S., and hiring has screeched to its slowest pace in a decade (aside from the pandemic plunge). That’s making more workers hold tight to the job they’ve already got.The good news: Those jobs d...

Texas Water Board details how it will spend $1 billion for water infrastructure projects

(The Texas Tribune) – ODESSA – Texas last week began dividing $1 billion in taxpayer approved money among different types of water infrastructure and supply projects.Most of the money will go toward low-interest loan programs to help cities and water...

From spender to saver: Transforming your financial future with a savings mindset

(Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase) – A savings mindset is a mental framework characterized by disciplined financial habits and a conscious commitment to regularly setting aside money for future needs and goals. It involves cultivating habits, attitudes, a...

Statement from DART on sales tax reduction

(DART Board of Directors) – It is unfortunate to witness Dallas Area Rapid Transit member city councils consider and approve adversarial resolutions against our transit agency. Although the timing and language of these resolutions are similar, the co...

Rent relief: A winning policy issue for the Harris campaign

(Trice Edney Communications) – Renters account for approximately 34% of the U.S. population, with 44 million housing units in the U.S. currently being rented. Talking directly to this constituency is a winning formula. The Department of Labor recentl...

Sonya Massey should still be alive

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – In many ways our nation has changed, but it hasn’t changed. When the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, opened in Montgomery, Alabama, it was to commemorate the Black vi...

JD Vance, tell me that again!

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – We’ve had to do a lot of listening lately about choices we must make about who’ll be our next president when 2025 rolls around. Single women should be having children if we want to have something to do about the future of our n...

My plan to reform the Supreme Court and ensure no president is above the law

(The White House) – This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one.But the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on J...

Sheila Jackson Lee – An Energizer Bunny for justice

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX, didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so many other challenges, working with her doctors on a treatment pla...

Women creating change

(Children’s Defense Fund) – When a large meeting of Black women voters made headlines this week, to many people it was another reminder of the major role Black women and all women have always played in creating transforming change. Women at the...

Ask Terri! Travel and Financial Preparedness

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Asthma disparities in the Black community

(The Dallas Examiner) – “The reality of the situation is that Black Americans experience worse asthma outcomes when compared to their White counterparts. When we look into the statistics, asthma is disproportionately diagnosed in Black Americans,” Ar...