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Income taxes and identity theft is a major issue for the IRS. Therefore, protecting the identity of tax payers is, again, a top priority for the 2015 Income Tax season. As you begin to prepare your taxes,...

The Powerball jackpot is now at $1.3 billion. This is the largest amount ever offered on one game and it has the nation in an uproar. For the first time, the Lottery Association could hand over someone a...

Celebrities make investments in real estate. Millions of dollars go into buying the property, renovations, etc. The main goal is to turn a profit if at anytime the superstar decides to sell the property....

During an Answers to Correspondent event, billionaire Bob Johnson discussed how the color of his skin struck a cord during his rise to success. The founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), which he...

Despite the streaming app, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, and such, iHeartMedia isn't flourishing we'd like to think. Bob Pittman, the visionary who created MTV, has had less success with iHeartMedia, the...

Martin Shkreli raised the price of a HIV drug by 5,000 percent, purchased the $2 million Wu-Tang album, and offered Bobby Shmurda a deal to get out of prison. But, it looks like he may be joining Shmurda...

By: Faisal Quyyumi, contributing intern (@_faisalquyyumi) Ever since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was established in 1932, elections have always guaranteed low turnouts because the nation is primarily run...

By: Faisal Quyyumi, contributing intern (@_faisalquyyumi ) Since the summer, several peace talks have been proposed between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, however they have yet to unfold. Each...

On Dec. 2, 2015, the Justice Department addressed the effect and fairness of fees and fines with a group of judges, academics and practitioners. Together, the group would create an agenda to that will help...

With the stake that Michael Jordan has in Nike, fans didn't think there would come a time when another basketball star would surpass his greatness. Off the court, Lebron James has been able to create...

By: Faisal Quyyumi, contributing intern (@_faisalquyyumi) After Donald Trump’s two-and-a-half meeting with a hundred black pastors and religious leaders this past weekend, he was able to have several of...

There's a fine line between professionalism in today's social media frenzy and trendiness. When businesses use words or symbols to promote their brand or latest products, as we seen during this past Small...

By: Tarra Jackson, financial expert and keynote speaker (@msmadamemoney) Most people that know me know that I love movies! I especially love the romantic comedy, “While You Were Sleeping.” However,...

Thumbtack, a career site that pairs small business professionals with customers in need of services, recently released statistics from their annual Small Business Friendliness Survey. This year, they took a...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has found that the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) violated the Family and Medical Leave Act, a law established in 1993.  This is the...

Jay Z and Vania Schlogel speaking at the Clive Davis Institute at NYU. (Photo credit: AintNoJigga/Tumblr) Jay Z’s “Tidal” streaming service is experiencing more organizational changes. The New York...

Investing in stocks doesn't take rocket science. To understand what stocks are good and which ones are not does, however, take a bit of know-how. This is why it is important to educate yourself on the basics...

How can you bounce back from being publicly shamed? Does your social media profile(s) give off the wrong image of you?  Do you think that your online presence block you from certain opportunities? If you...

This isn't new, but, it may have been unheard of up until now. For business owners, borrowing money from traditional banking sources has become a thing of the past. Why? Because of the tedious requirements...

Dating apps, as we know, varies when it comes to niches. If you can think of it, there's probably a dating site or app for that. Now, a pair of angel investors is betting their money on a wilder side of...

The social media experience is becoming one big aggravation. The culprits behind the annoyance are those "flipping money" scam accounts. They're a pure thorn in many users' timeline and comments a**. When...

You enter college with a plan. The plan is to do well in school, but have a job to help with living expenses and other random things. This sounds obtainable, unfortunately, what most students realize is that...

The Obama administration recently announced new program that is supposed to help incarcerated fathers with their debt. The potentially forthcoming regulations will allow these fathers to "pause" their child...

This RushCard fiasco is getting crazier by the day.  Well, it looks like Russell Simmons is no longer willing to communicate with disgruntle RushCard holders. After weeks of not being able to access their...

As undergrads, the thought of leaving college with a great paying job is the primary focus. Not all students inherit money. Not all students are born into money or luck up and become a millionaire at a young...

Billionaire Richard Branson is fed up with the global "war on drugs" movement. The self-made mogul recently discussed his disgust with how governments have wasted billions trying to create a drug-free...

To become wealthy doesn't require 30 plus years of hard work any more. There are people in this world who inherit wealth at a young age or be smart enough to create the next hot tech idea. People in their...

Online drug dealer, Ross Ulbricht, was sentenced to life in prison but it his fortune is free and available to whomever wants it. The Silk Road creator brokered over $200 million worth of undetected...

  What if you were scheduled to have surgery and someone other than your doctor was operating on you? Well, that's what happened to thousands of individuals in Los Angeles who were patients of Dr....

Credit repair companies are everywhere. This line of business is in high demand due to the millions of people who desperately need their credit fixed. Not only do people need their credit scores raised, but...