CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO is reporting) –President Barack Obama visited Cleveland Wednesday to deliver remarks on the importance of middle class economics. Invited by the City Club, this is the 44th president’s first visit to Cleveland in two years. From presidents George H.W. Bush to George W. Bush to Bill Clinton, every sitting president in recent […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Middle class workers will likely be a deciding factor in who wins this November. So 19 Action News hit the streets to find out what Cleveland’s blue collar workers are looking for in the candidates, before we name our next president. “Our economy, I feel hasn’t got a whole lot better. […]
Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional lines between rich and poor, according to new census data.
Millions of Americans endured financial calamities in the recession. But for many in the black community, job loss has knocked them out of the middle class and back into poverty. And some experts warn of a historic reversal of hard-won economic gains that took black people decades to achieve.