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Friday, May 1, 2009
20 Jobs that Pay $20 Per Hour
Watch the news for 30 minutes and you'll quickly lose perspective of the value of a dollar.
That idea might seem paradoxical in this recession where every dollar counts, but think about the figures we're hearing about: trillion dollar deficit, $800 billion stimulus, 7,000 point drop in the Dow. That's a lot of zeros.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess your bank account doesn't have that many digits in it. In fact, if it does, you're probably paying someone to read this article to you.
For the rest of us who don't have a billion dollars in the bank and are just happy to have more money coming in than going out (even if barely), we need to reevaluate the value of a dollar. Or, in this instance, the value of $20.
In the age of astronomical governmental spending and foreclosures, our salaries can seem like insignificant sums in the grand scheme of things.
So to give you an idea of what occupations us "regular people" earn, here are 20 jobs that pay a median hourly wage of $20, which works out to $41,600 annually based on a 40-hour workweek.
Here are 20 jobs that earn $20 per hour:
1. Carpet installers
What they do: As their name implies, carpet installers prepare surfaces for carpet and then cut the pieces into the appropriate size for the room and ensure it's properly installed.
Hourly median earning: $20.00*
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Black Women on the Rise: Michelle’s Stock Rises Higher than Her Husband
Heather Ferreira works in the slums of Mumbai, India, where she has watched thousands of women live under a "curse."
The women she meets in the squalid streets where "Slumdog Millionaire" was filmed are often treated with contempt, she says. They're considered ugly if their skin and hair are too dark. They are deemed "cursed" if they only have daughters. Many would-be mothers even abort their children if they learn they're female.
Yet lately she says Indian women are getting another message from the emergence of another woman thousands of miles away. This woman has dark skin and hair. She walks next to her husband in public, not behind. And she has two daughters. But no one calls her cursed. They call her Michelle Obama, the first lady.
"She could be a new face for India," says Ferreira, program officer for an HIV-prevention program run by World Vision, an international humanitarian group. "She shows women that it's OK to have dark skin and to not have a son. She's quite real to us."
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Black Woman Saved Pirate-Kidnapped Captain
While the facts surrounding the kidnapping and rescue of the Maersk Alabama Captain Richard Phillips have been widely reported, less well-known is that ship which saved him was commanded by a black woman, Rear Admiral Michelle Howard.
Howard received the assignment of leading the U.S. Navy's counter-piracy task force just three days before the Maersk Alabama was attacked by Somalia pirates.
“It’s probably one of the most exciting missions the Navy has been on in for a long while,” Howard told the Navy Times.
Howard is the first of her 1982 U.S. Naval Academy class to reach the rank of admiral. In 1999, Howard became the first African-American woman to command a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Rushmore.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
News: Barack Obama Accused of Breaking Promise to Farmers
As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now he is president, and his administration so far is acting like it wants the potentially budget-busting lawsuits to go away.
AP
The change isn't sitting well with black farmers who thought they'd get a friendlier reception from Obama after years of resistance from President George W. Bush.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
14 Year old Black Boy Creates Surgery Technique
He will present his findings today to the medical community.
A Jacksonville researcher has developed a way of sewing up patients after hysterectomies that stands t;o reduce the risk of complications and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons.
Oh, and he's 14 years old.
Feel free to read that again.
Tony Hansberry II is a ninth-grader who, as it happens, will be presenting his findings today before an auditorium filled with doctors just like any of his board-certified - and decades older - colleagues would. He would say he was following in the footsteps of "Doogie Howser, M.D." - if he weren't too young to have heard of the television show.
Instead, he says that his remarkable accomplishments are merely steps toward his ultimate goal of becoming a University of Florida-trained neurosurgeon.
"I just want to help people and be respected, knowing that I can save lives," said Tony, the son of a registered nurse mom and an African Methodist Episcopal church pastor dad.
To be sure, he had some help along the way, but, then again, most researchers do. The seeds of his project were planted last summer during his internship at the University of Florida's Center for Simulation Education and Safety Research, based at Shands Jacksonville.
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Black Money: GM’s Workers in a tough situation
In an attempt to avoid bankruptcy, General Motors announced plans to cut 23,000 jobs by 2011, with another round of buyouts in the works that will likely be its stingiest yet.
While discussions are currently taking place on what the next buyout offer will entail, the company is remaining tight-lipped for now. "We don't have anything to announce at this time," said GM spokeswoman Sherri Childers Arb.
The United Auto Workers union was not available for immediate comment.
But with the company in such serious financial trouble, the latest offer is likely to be stingier than what employees have received in the past.
"The financial condition of the company has deteriorated, so the ability to provide generous buyouts has declined as well," according to John Weykamp, an auto restructuring expert at accounting firm Crowe Horwath.
Most recently GM (GM, Fortune 500) offered a buyout package in February to cut down on the number of hourly workers.
Approximately 22,000 eligible employees were offered full pension and health care coverage, in addition to the buyout package, which included $20,000 in cash and a $25,000 voucher toward the purchase of a GM car.
Employees had between February and March 24 to accept those buyout provisions. About 7,000 employees agreed to those terms, according to Childers Arb. The workers who took the buyouts had to leave the company by April 1.
Monday, April 27, 2009
The Pain from Divorce: A Sister Writes About It
My heart taken freely as the love was squeezed out of it
All the flavor is gone there is nothing left not a bit
My mind nearly destroyed as any independent thought I had was negated
My body abused- no longer is there found pleasure- once loved now hated
My soul what is left of it is freely given back to God
I’d rather risk being as though I never was rather than continue this facade
Existence in a body abused without pleasure,
A mind without independent thought, how can one measure?
A heart without love, or life without breath
A soul broken and bruised is worse than death
Let me go -be happy
Or if per chance during this thing
Some pleasure is found in my suffering
Just let me be
This misery cannot be my destiny
Let me go and be happy without you
Death can be sweet sometimes when colors are always blue
When life with someone is become so harsh and so bitter
I have given up trying to love even though I know I am no quitter
If continuing in this is proven to be my destiny
Then let me not continue to breathe just let me be
Let it not be too long
That I endure this life’s sad song
Let me go and be happy
This cannot be my destiny
Let me go -be happy
Or if per chance during this thing
Some pleasure is found in my suffering
Just let me be
This misery cannot be my destiny
Leave me alone and just let me be
Copyright 2006, by Arene
Lady Drama: Hit or Miss – Kim K’s New Hair
Kim K was spotted strutting down the streets of NYC with a new hair color and an attitude to match! If it wasn't for the unmistakable crowd behind her I would swear she was in the middle of a photo shoot or something! You better work bitch ;-) Now that I have clearly stated how much I love Kim's new look how do you feel? Was it a hit or miss?
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Why Ebony, Jet and LA Times are Dying
For grins, next time you're in the mood for a movie, go rent "The Paper" with Michael Keaton and Glenn Close. Released in 1994, it involves a day in the life of a New York City tabloid newspaper.
A self-admitted tech geek, Chris Pirillo is president of Lockergnome.com, a blogging network.
What a difference a decade (and a half) makes.
It's a bit like a denizen of the year 1909 trying to fathom the relevance of what went on behind the scenes of 1894's cutthroat horse and buggy industry while Henry Ford's factories roll out Model T after Model T, dramatically changing the world's landscape -- for better and worse -- in ways we're still dealing with here in the 21st century.
Recently, someone asked me about the last time I'd picked up a newspaper, and I couldn't honestly remember when that was.
Actually, no -- I take that back. I picked up a local weekly from our driveway and tossed it into the recycling bin just the other day.
Why dirty up my hands with newsprint when I can just go see the same information presented in the more searchable and easier to share format of a Web edition?
Technorati Tags: black technology,ebony magazine,jet magazine,bankruptcy,black news,african american news
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Lady Drama’s Latest Episode: Chingy and the Transvestite
Lady Drama talks about Chingy and his alleged sex life, Mario shaving his head and Rihanna’s new decoy of a boyfriend. Click the image to watch!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Still think Oprah Wears a Weave?
This photo allegedly proves that Oprah Winfrey’s hair is real. At least that’s what they are saying about it.
The Drama Files: Beyonce Steps Up Her Actin Game with Obsessed
By Reviews R Me
Most of us don’t expect much from Beyonce on the big screen. I didn’t expect much either. I only hoped that I could make it through the movie without throwing up or wondering who in the holy hell told her that she could act in the first place. But this movie was different. Beyonce did it right and did it well. Also, with Idris on screen, you always had something good to look at.
Really, you could call this movie “Fatal Attraction for Black people”, since the white lady was the evil monster and all the black people were scared of her. Shoot, as crazy as she was, I was scared of her too!
I give Beyonce a B on this performance, which is better than the failing grade she normally gets. Check out the trailer by clicking the image below:
Black Money: Graduates Hit Hardest by Unemployment Numbers
Fifteen months into a deep recession, college-educated white workers still had a relatively low unemployment rate of 3.8% in March of this year. The same could not be said for African Americans with four-year degrees. The March 2009 unemployment rate for college-educated blacks was 7.2%—almost twice as high as the white rate—and up 4.5 percentage points from March 2007, before the start of the current recession (see chart).
Your Black Health: The Swine Flu Panic is On
The World Health Organization warned countries around the world Saturday to be on alert for any unusual flu outbreaks after a unique new swine flu virus was implicated in possibly dozens of human deaths in North America.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the outbreak in Mexico and the United States constituted a "public health emergency of international concern."
Friday, April 24, 2009
White Rapper Asher Roth Calls Black Women “Nappy Headed Hoes”
White rapper Asher Roth chose to put his foot in his mouth on Twitter:
“At rutgers stirring up a suckus,” Roth tweeted. Okay, not bad.
Then: “At rutgers stirring up a ruckus.” Oh no, is he tweet-rapping?
“Been a day of rest and relaxation, sorry twitter – hanging out with nappy headed hoes.” Boom.
Fierce! Alicia Keys Photoshoot Video
Wanna see something amazing? Check out the Alicia Keys photoshoot for Ebony mag! Click the image to watch!
Ebony and Jet Mags May Not Survive
The black blogosphere is buzzing with the rumor that two media staples of the African American community are on the verge of disappearing. In February, Black Enterprise magazine announced that Ebony and Jet magazines were "restructuring to avoid layoffs," with the cheerful sub-headline: "Johnson Publishing Co. employees told to reapply for jobs."
Now in late April, people are e-mailing, tweeting and talking about the possible irrevocable demise of the only media brands every black person in America knows. Some are even starting a campaign to save the magazines with a subscription drive.
Bush Torture Scandal Gets at Condi First
Condoleezza Rice gave permission for the CIA to use waterboarding techniques on the alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah as early as July 2002, the first known official approval for the technique, according to a report released by the Senate intelligence committee yesterday.
The revelation indicates that Rice, who at the time was national security adviser and went on to be secretary of state, played a greater role than she admitted in written testimony last autumn.
The committee's narrative report (pdf) also shows that dissenting legal views about the interrogation methods were brushed aside repeatedly. The mood within the Bush administration at the time is caught in a handwritten note attached to a December 2002 memo from Donald Rumsfeld, the then defence secretary, on the use of stress positions.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Black Celebs: Beyonce Snuggles w Halle’s Ex
R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles might be a married woman but that does not stop her from getting cosy with other men for her
videos.
The latest video arm candy is none other than actor Michael Ealy who is better known for his brief affair with Hollywood beauty Halle Berry.
Beyonce's latest video 'Halo' features her and the 'Seven Pounds' actor snuggling up on a sofa, reported Sun online.
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Black Woman Professor Sues Columbia for $200M
(CNN) A professor who gained national attention when a noose was found on her office door and was later fired for alleged plagiarism has filed a defamation lawsuit against her former school.
A former professor is suing Columbia University's Teachers College for defamation.
Madonna Constantine, formerly of the Teachers College of Columbia University, is seeking $200 million in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court.
Constantine contends her scholarly reputation was ruined when the school in February 2008 released the results of what it said was an 18-month investigation into the plagiarism allegations. The school at the time said it found "numerous instances in which she used others' work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years."
She was immediately suspended and later fired in June 2008.
"This was a scheme cooked up between the head of the department and former faculty," said Paul J. Giacomo Jr., the lawyer representing Constantine. "We had evidence of her original writing that dates back to the 1990s, but it was altered or dismissed."
Black Politics: Barack Obama’s Boycott of Racism Conference Sending Mixed Messages
by Dr. Ronald Walters, University of Maryland
I am missing something here. President Barack Obama just went to Europe and Iraq and made speeches saying that he would be deferential to Communist China, that he would meet without conditions with the leadership of Iran and that he wanted to open up a new relationship with the Islamic world. Then he went to the Conference of the Americas in Trinidad and shook the hand of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela who has said some devilish things about America and the Bush administration. But the key issue that took the conference over was the American overture to Cuba to talk, in response to Raul Castro’s statement that he would talk with the U. S. and that everything would be on the table. Moreover, the Obama administration has said that it wanted to open up a new chapter in its relationship with the United Nations. To that end, it has appointed an African American Ambassador and put in its application for a seat on the Human Rights Commission. Against this background, the decision of the Obama administration not to go to the United Nations Conference On Racism in Geneva, Switzerland April 20-24 would appear to be a powerful refutation of this relatively liberal approach to the international community it has established.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Lady Drama: Howard Stern Embarrasses the Ish Out of Beyonce
Howard Stern plays a horrible tape of Beyonce singing. Turns out that it was a hoax, but damn….she sounds as bad as she did in Dream Girls!
Click the image to watch.
Money, Love, Relationships: Gibson’s wife Wants Half a Billion
If a man makes less money than his spouse, is that a problem?
Click the image to watch!
Pastor Pay Leads to Major Lawsuit
Dr Boyce Watkins
I read today about the financial compensation package of pastor Brad Braxton of the New Riverside Church in Manhattan. Here is the breakdown of Braxton’s compensation:
The total value of the package is estimated to be $600,000 per year.
All I can say is “wow”. No disrespect to this man or his congregation, but he would NOT be preaching at my church. What was most problematic about the church’s decision to give Braxton such a ridiculous compensation package was that they didn’t seem to clear it with the membership, many of whom are filing suit over Braxton’s pay. As a Finance Professor, I must admit that I personally become uncomfortable hearing men and women of God talking about money more than I do. I must disagree with Rev. TD Jakes, who said that “Jesus is a product”. Sorry brother, Nikes are a product. Cheeseburgers are a product. Jesus is a spirit that should lead us to pursue a good that is greater than our bank accounts. I am not sure how many pastors agree with that assessment.
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