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• Black Community’s Retirement Woes Leading to New Ways to Save Money

  05-11-2023 16:00
  
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  By Hazel Trice Edney
  A recent study has outlined a disturbing trend across the nation: Increasing retirement woes among Black people, coming from several angles that indicate some could choose to work longer or seek more palatable options for savings and income. 
  Either people aren’t feeling on-track to retire, they’re worried about outliving whatever savings they are able to accrue or their jobs don’t offer fair retirement plans for pe
  
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• 90-Year-Old USPS Worker Not Retiring After Nearly 70 Years Of Service

  05-11-2023 15:00
  
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  A 90-year-old army vet has been working for the United States Postal Service for nearly 70 years.
  Since December 31, 1955, Leroy Brown, who served in the U.S. Army for two years, has been working at the Los Angeles International Service Center. an international mail processing facility for the USPS, NBC Los Angeles reports.
  “I’m satisfied,” Brown said. “The Postal Service gave me a job to take care of my family.”
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• Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott Awards $5 Million to Skills for Chicagoland’s Future

  05-11-2023 14:15
  
  Skills for Chicagoland’s Future recently announced it received a $5 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
  The transformative donation will support Skills’ work breaking down barriers to employment for overlooked talent on the South and West sides of Chicago and expand its successful model across the country.
  Scott’s unsolicited and unrestricted gift, through her charitable fund Yield Giving, will help Skills significantly increase the number of Chicagoans placed int
  
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• Arbitrating police terminations could result in a ‘decade of police impunity’

  05-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A potential change in the way Chicago police officers appeal disciplinary charges could result in secret hearings, more officers getting off the hook for misconduct, and an overall breakdown in the city’s newly strengthened police oversight infrastructure.  That’s according to city officials, from Mayor Brandon Johnson to Inspector General Deborah Witzburg to police board chair […]
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