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by Powers Investments Management, LLC November 11, 2024
FINANCIAL LITERACY

The Failure of The Liberal’s Approach to Closing The Racial Gaps Is Measured in Dead Bodies and Incarcerations.  

Disclaimer: Good Day, Readers.  WealthBuildingPowers blog is a financial literacy/competency blog and does not provide specific investment recommendations.   Listen to today's blog by clicking below: Podcast created with Alphabet’s Notebook LM Lost Lives and Broken Promises: Examining the Flaws in Progressive Racial Policies "Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed" Jason Riley Jason Riley’s book "Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to ...

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by Powers Investments Management, LLC October 23, 2024
MENTORS

EVA MOSKOWITZ’S STRONG ADVOCACY FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS – WEDNESDAY’S RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS SERIES

When you ask young people to name a role model, they often name an entertainer, like Beyonce, Lebron, or Lady Gaga (I do like that name). This series celebrates a rainbow of role models, including physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, school teachers, and, yes, a few entertainers. They all have a few things in common: hard work and a spirit of never giving up. I love learning from inspirational people who ...

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by Powers Investments Management, LLC January 30, 2023
FINANCIAL LITERACY

IN SOME U.S. CITIES, A CHILD HAS BETTER ODDS OF GOING TO PRISON OR BEING MURDERED THAN CLIMBING TO THE MIDDLE CLASS!

About 70% of U.S. Congress People are millionaires.  Most members of Congress, in my opinion, deliver little value to society, but they get wealthy and enamored with power.  They care about one thing -getting reelected, which requires money.  The Teachers’ Unions donate millions of dollars to Democrat politicians.  The unions demand zero support for charter schools.   That is the nasty reality of America’s education system. 

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by Powers Investments Management, LLC January 17, 2022
FINANCIAL LITERACY , MENTORS

I WAS TEN YEARS OLD WHEN DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS ASSASSINATED

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at ...

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by Powers Investments Management, LLC July 12, 2021
FINANCIAL LITERACY , MENTORS

LEARNING FROM INTELLIGENT MINDS – IS MANDATORY!

Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. He wrote a remarkable 36 books in a career spanning more than a half-century, covering economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. Jason Riley's latest book, Maverick, showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one ...

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