Author: Carma Henry

The Community Fund of North Miami Dade (CFNMD), a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), is launching their #SheWinsWeWin campaign in honor of Women’s History Month. Designed to elevate the visibility of Black female business owners throughout South Florida that are overcoming obstacles to maintain and grow their businesses, the campaign will include digital events, infographics, workshops and more throughout the month of March.

Living and Working Together

      Sexual harassment charges are on the rise and flooding media networks. The alleged victims are almost always  women, and the defendants are men. Women, not necessarily by choice, instantly become media stars. All the major networks rush to schedule live interviews where the victim is treated as though it’s a dress rehearsal for a part in a movie. Often, the victim is young, attractive and well composed. Yet, some have grown older and retired, but still choose to reveal their story through a book deal or before TV cameras. Sometimes it’s to support the most recent alleged victim.

      It does not matter if you are a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent, right is right, and wrong is wrong. There are values and moral principles, which our leaders should use as a measuring stick to live their lives by. Senator Rick Scott and Senator Marco Rubio have failed the test, and they must be sent home packing.

What is really going on?

Fight For Women of Color Who Fight For Us

Voter Suppression: Jim Crow Revisited

Maine Farm Girl & Kansas Grain Farmer Talk Climate on The Train

     By contrast, the Constitution of the United States declares clearly, in its Preamble, that a key purpose of the U.S. government is to “promote the general welfare.” Furthermore, promoting the general welfare is the usual reason that people around the world support some sort of governing authority. After all, if a government doesn’t promote the welfare of its people, what good is it?

     While spending on energy since 2009 fell 10% to 15% across every income bracket, Americans’ non-energy spending on housing, vehicles, maintenance and insurance rose the fastest among those who could least afford increases. Real housing expenditures (excluding energy) by the lowest 40% of U.S. households by income increased about 10% between 2009 and 2019 – roughly three times the rate among wealthy households. Over the same period, real household spending on vehicles, insurance and public transit rose 35% among the lowest 20% of households by income, more than twice the rate of wealthier households.