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Know Your Boo’s Bank Account! 43% Of Couples Inaccurately Guessed Their Partner’s Salary

You don’t want to be among the 43 percent who inaccurately guessed their significant others’ earnings in Fidelity Investments’ 2015 Couples Retirement Study. And here’s the kicker: Despite the fact that four in 10 clearly have a hazy idea about their partner’s finances, a whopping 72 percent say they communicate “exceptionally” or “very well” with their significant other…“For many, conversations about money can feel uncomfortable. In some cases we don’t know how to start a discussion, so we put it off, even though we know it’s important,” [Kristen Robinson, Fidelity’s SVP of Women and Young Investors] said. [ Madamenoire ] The Tinder For Jobs: This App Lets You Swipe Right Into Employment …Say hello to Switch — the Tinder for jobs, according to USA Today College. Switch was launched in July 2014 and according to Quartz, it was originally centered on the New York City tech job market, but with a few rounds of successful funding campaigns, the app was able to expand. According to the The Muse, it’s similar to how Tinder — the dating app – operates: “Switch allows you to quickly and easily browse through job postings—swipe right to like, swipe left to pass. Hiring managers do the same thing, browsing through candidates’ anonymized profiles and culling information about their professional backgrounds and credentials. Notifications are sent right to your phone whenever an interested employer likes your professional profile.” [ Madamenoire ] Brooklyn’s Susannah Mushatt Jones Is The World’s Oldest Person Susannah Mushatt Jones, confirmed by the Guinness World Records organization as the oldest living person in the world this past June, celebrated her 116th birthday on Monday privately in Brooklyn… Jones was born July 6, [1899] in Alabama, as child of a sharecropper and a granddaughter to former slaves. According to Guinness, Jones moved north to New Jersey in 1922 after graduating high school. She then moved into New York where she worked as a child care provider and housekeeper. Jones retired from work in 1965, and settled in Brooklyn. Although Jones is hard of hearing and lost her eyesight, she is not beholden to a bed and can get around ably. [ HipHopWired ] Chance The Rapper Says President Obama ‘Achieved A Lot’ In Regards To Racial Tension [ VibeVixen ] George Lopez — There Are Enough Racists for Donald Trump to Win [ TMZ ] ‘My Mother Told Me Never To Marry A Black Woman’: How Race Works In The Dominican Republic [ HuffingtonPost ] James And Crystal Driggers: Parents Force Teenage Daughter To Live In The Woods For Eating A Pop-Tart [ StarPulse ]

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Free At Last: President Obama To Grant Clemency To Dozens Of Convicted Nonviolent Drug Offenders

President Obama To Set Nonviolent Drug Offenders Free From Federal Prison Obama flexin’ on the feds… Via NYTimes Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of federal prisoners locked up on nonviolent drug offenses. With the stroke of his pen, he will probably commute more sentences at one time than any president has in nearly half a century. The expansive use of his clemency power is part of a broader effort by Mr. Obama to correct what he sees as the excesses of the past, when politicians eager to be tough on crime threw away the key even for minor criminals. With many Republicans and Democrats now agreeing that the nation went too far, Mr. Obama holds the power to unlock that prison door, especially for young African-American and Hispanic men disproportionately affected. But even as he exercises authority more assertively than any of his modern predecessors, Mr. Obama has only begun to tackle the problem he has identified. In the next weeks, the total number of commutations for Mr. Obama’s presidency may surpass 80, but more than 30,000 federal inmates have come forward in response to his administration’s call for clemency applications. A cumbersome review process has advanced only a small fraction of them. And just a small fraction of those have reached the president’s desk for a signature. “I think they honestly want to address some of the people who have been oversentenced in the last 30 years,” said Julie Stewart, the founder and president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a group advocating changes in sentencing. “I’m not sure they envisioned that it would be as complicated as it is, but it has become more complicated, whether it needs to be or not, and that’s what has bogged down the process.” Overhauling the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan venture. Like Mr. Obama, Republicans running for his job are calling for systemic changes. Lawmakers from both parties are collaborating on legislation. And the United States Sentencing Commission has revised guidelines for drug offenders, so far retroactively reducing sentences for more than 9,500 inmates, nearly three-quarters of them black or Hispanic. POTUS is really lettin’ it all hang out in his last days in office. Gay marriage. Soul-reviving eulogies. Prison reform. Barack is BALLIN’ on these hoes! Image via AP

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Free At Last: President Obama To Grant Clemency To Dozens Of Convicted Nonviolent Drug Offenders

GTFOHWTBS: Presidential Wannabe GOP Goon Rick Perry Calls Charleston Church Shooting “An Accident”

Jeb Bush, Chris Christie And Rick Perry Avoid Talking Gun Control Or Race After Charleston Shooting It should come as little to no surprise that the Republican candidates for President are poorly equipped to deal with matters of race or gun violence. Via NY Daily News reports : Jeb Bush and Chris Christie mourned the murders in Charleston without blaming lax gun laws or discussing race Friday while addressing an audience of religious conservatives. And potential presidential candidate Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, referred to the murders as an “accident” — though his spokeswoman said he intended to say “incident.” Perry, in an interview with the conservative publication Newsmax, criticized President Obama and other liberals’ “”knee-jerk reaction of saying ‘if we can just take all the guns away this won’t happen.’” At the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington, Christie declared that the shootings were “depraved” and “unthinkable” before suggesting that tighter gun control could not have prevented the shootings. “Laws can’t change this, only the goodwill and the love of the American people can let those folks know that that act was unacceptable, disgraceful,” he said, calling on people to pray for the families of the dead. In his remarks, Bush said initially that he didn’t know what motivated Dylann Storm Roof. “”I don’t know what was on the mind or the heart of the man who committed these atrocious crimes,” Bush said, adding: “In times like these, in times of great national mourning, people of faith, all of us must come together.” He did not mention guns. Roof made it clear during his shooting spree on Wednesday that he was there to kill black people. In appearances Thursday at the convention, Sens. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, other leading Republican presidential candidates, also avoided blaming guns. This is some BS… We can’t allow another Bush to set foot anywhere near the White House. And isn’t Rick Perry the one who used to vacation by the place with the N-Word nickname?

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President Obama Addresses The Charleston Shooting + Makes It All About Gun Control

President Obama addressed the tragic Emanuel AME Church massacre in a speech today (June 18). This obviously isn’t the first time in President Obama‘s tenure…

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NEWS ROUNDUP: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Defends Rachel Dolezal, Top Al-Qaeda Leader Killed…AND MORE

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As former Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal remains at the center of controversy, many people are speaking out in her defense. Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar…

NEWS ROUNDUP: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Defends Rachel Dolezal, Top Al-Qaeda Leader Killed…AND MORE

President Obama Celebrates Caitlyn Jenner! [PHOTO]

President Obama Celebrates Caitlyn Jenner [PHOTO] Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner as taken over the internet with her fabulous unveiling. Even President Barack…

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President Obama Celebrates Caitlyn Jenner! [PHOTO]

President Obama Celebrates Caitlyn Jenner [PHOTO] Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner as taken over the internet with her fabulous unveiling. Even President Barack…

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Tahera Ahmad pictures, Northwestern Universiry chaplain

Tahera Ahmad, a chaplain at Northwestern Universiry, was allegedly told she couldn#39;t have a can of Diet Coke in case she used it as a weapon. Tahera Ahmad, was flying from Chicago to a conference in Washington, D.C., Friday night when she said her request was refused. Ahmad, a moderate Muslim who has been personally commended by President Obama, said that the incident was motivated by her religion and left her humiliated. She said the discrimination suffered was plain to see because a pass

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Tahera Ahmad pictures, Northwestern Universiry chaplain

Tahera Ahmad pictures, Northwestern Universiry chaplain

Tahera Ahmad, a chaplain at Northwestern Universiry, was allegedly told she couldn#39;t have a can of Diet Coke in case she used it as a weapon. Tahera Ahmad, was flying from Chicago to a conference in Washington, D.C., Friday night when she said her request was refused. Ahmad, a moderate Muslim who has been personally commended by President Obama, said that the incident was motivated by her religion and left her humiliated. She said the discrimination suffered was plain to see because a pass

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World’s Oldest Woman Celebrates Her 116th Birthday & Shares Her Secret To Long Life

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The world’s oldest woman just celebrated her 116th birthday Saturday and we’re over here feeling pretty damn impressed. Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Michigan was born…

World’s Oldest Woman Celebrates Her 116th Birthday & Shares Her Secret To Long Life