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Warren calls for diversity in Federal Reserve leadership

WASHINGTON – The latest crusade in the name of diversity commenced on Thursday, this time aimed squarely at the makeup of the Federal Reserve's leadership and spearheaded in part by Elizabeth Warren, the senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts. The Cambridge Democrat recently linked up with fellow Democrat, Michigan

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Panama Papers database of offshore firms goes live

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A group of investigative journalists on Monday published the names of thousands of offshore companies at the heart of a massive trove of data on the finances of the rich and powerful that has become known as the Panama Papers. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made

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Do we still dream the dream?

Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in its entirety. I have made my children listen to it many times. Although we all know the key lines, which will be played

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Black 8.8% jobless rate more than double white rate

(CNSNews.com) — For February, the national unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, but for whites alone it was 4.3 percent and for Blacks it was 8.8 percent, more than double the rate of whites, according to the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Asians