Major Credit Rating Agency Sends Strong Signal that Connecticut is Headed on the Right Path Toward a Strong Economic Recovery Hartford, CT – Today, Connecticut State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden announced that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded Connecticut’s General Obligation bonds credit rating from “A1” to “Aa3”, the first such credit rating upgrade for Connecticut in …
The American Rescue Plan Provides Relief for Small Businesses By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The White House on Tuesday released a fact sheet on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, noting that millions of main street small businesses are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the …
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has received reports that fraudsters are creating fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine surveys for consumers to fill out with the promise of a prize or cash at the conclusion of the survey. In reality, the surveys are used to steal money from consumers and unlawfully capture consumers’ personal information. Consumers receive …
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Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Christopher Algieri, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of the Inspector General, Northeast Field Office, today announced that PHILLIANN BARNETT, 42, a Jamaican citizen residing in New Britain, was arrested on March 2 on a criminal complaint …
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Speaking at press conference, Rev. A. J. Johnson, local leader of Phi Beta Sigma, talks about making sure the Northend can have and show the holiday spirit. With the help of PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY, INC., Delta Pi Sigma Chapter, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated and the Phi Delta Zeta Chapter gathered to announced the …
OVERALL INTERST COST AT RECORD LOW 1.80%,SAVING TAXPAYERS MONEY HARTFORD, CT – Today, Connecticut State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden announced that the State’s $800 million, 20-year General Obligation (GO) bond sale achieved a record low overall interest cost of 1.80% and were purchased by investors at the lowest bond pricing spreads since 2014. “The General …
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent In a recent interview with BlackPressUSA, Le Nette Rutledge, the head of Military Talent Programs at Wells Fargo, shared her perspective about being a military veteran now serving in the ranks of corporate America. When asked what gets her up each morning, Rutledge responded, “I coined …
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That includes a push for the lowering of prescription drug prices, which he says have gone “through the roof.” ‘Through the Roof’ Prescription Drug Prices Hit Communities of Color the Hardest Grassroots advocates insist there’s got to be a better way By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Seventy-three-year-old Leonard L. Edloe, a pharmacist of 50 …
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the updated interest rates for the 504 Loan Program offered by Certified Development Companies (CDC). The program now allows for 10, 20, and 25-year interest rates at 2.231 percent, 2.364 percent, and 2.399 percent, respectively. Small businesses can now apply for a 504 loan at these low-interest …
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WASHINGTON, DC – Wealth and land ownership in America has historically been tied to systemic racism, segregation and targeted African-American exclusion from homeownership – with present-day Black Lives Matter protests for justice reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement – according to Grounded Solutions Network CEO Tony Pickett and leading housing advocates around the world in …
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