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Snoop Dogg May Buy Bankrupt Roscoe’s Franchise

By Veronica Mackey

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resident Obama once stopped there en route to a Hancock Park fundraiser. He joked about getting a stain on his shirt from the chicken grease. Snoop Dogg ate there with celebrity friends Larry King and David Beckham, and Notorious B.I.G. mentioned it in “Going back to Cali.”

Now, the famous soul food chain, known as Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, may become a memory.

Parent company, East Coast Foods Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week. According to reports on filings with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in California, Roscoe’s is estimated to have debts

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Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles Southern-style restaurant in Inglewood

between $10 million and $50 million. It is reporting assets of less than $50,000.

Based in Long Beach, the company has 7 franchises in Southern California, including one in Inglewood at 621 W. Manchester. Known for its signature chicken-and-waffle combos, greens, grits and other Southern-style favorites, Roscoe’s has been around since 1975.

The love affair between Roscoe’s

and its faithful customers is one that would be envied by many restaurants. The clearest sign of this was seen shortly after the bankruptcy was announced on March 25.

One customer tweeted: “Roscoe’s can’t file for bankruptcy. They just can’t (sad face).”

Another tweeted: “One of the best spots, we must ban together to save Roscoe’s.”

Snoop Dogg said he plans to do

just that. Upon hearing the news Tuesday from TMZ, he replied: “Bankruptcy, Roscoe’s went, no they didn’t? I guess Ima have to buy it, man and make it Snoop Dogg’s Chicken and Waffles.”

The eatery is an institution, especially among African American diners. Ironically, it was an African American man who recently won a $3.2 million lawsuit against the franchise for employment discrimination.

According to reports, former employee Daniel Beasley was awarded $1.7 million personally and $1.5 in attorney’s fees by a jury in Los Angeles last October. Beasley said the restaurant gave preferential treatment to Latinos, including better shifts. He accused the company of firing him in retaliation for complaining. He became homeless after he was fired. Roscoe’s is appealing the ruling.

Beasley’s attorney suspects the bankruptcy filing is a way to get out of paying his client. It is not clear whether the bankruptcy filing will affect its daily operations.

Millenials Need Nearly $2 Million to Retire

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By Thomas Bunn

illennials get a bad rap.

They’re viewed as entitled, lazy, and flat out spoiled.

Aside from that, Millennials (born between 1980-2000) are also both highly unemployed and highly impoverished. In a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 44% of college grads in their 20s are stuck in low-wage, dead-end jobs, the highest rate in decades, and the number of young people making less than $25,000 has also spiked to the highest level since the 1990s. So, if you thought (Continued on page 2)

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Food Storage

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By Anne Cheek La Rose

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have only cooked for two, so I tend to shop every couple of days, unless I need something specific. No one ever taught me, so I really don’t know the ins and outs of storing various things; I just pick up information here and there and through trial and error. Recently, I ran across information about how best to store things we use every day.

Bread will keep on the counter, if it will be eaten in four days time. If not, it should be wrapped and placed in the freezer.

I’ve kept coffee in the refrigerator and in the cabinet and can’t tell a difference. If you are a coffee aficionado, never keep it in the fridge as it will take on smells of other food nearby. You can however, store large quantities in the freezer.

Like coffee, I’ve stored tomatoes in the fridge and out. They seem to last as long either way. According to experts, tomatoes lose flavor in the refrigerator because the cold air stops their ripening.

Onions should be stored in a cool, dry place. News to me, is that if stored with potatoes they will both go bad faster—I won’t store them together again. In the refrigerator, on-

Anne Cheek La Rose ions will go soft due to the moist air.

I love avocados, and would eat one daily if I could. When they are plentiful, I buy several ranging from almost ripe to ripe but find it difficult to keep up with their ripening. Storing then in a paper bag will hasten ripening, while putting them into the fridge will slow it.

Nobody keeps bananas in the fridge. If they don’t ripen as quickly as you’d like, place them in a paper bag with an apple or tomato.

Most varieties of apples last about a week at room temperature, however, some varieties can be stored for

months when wrapped individually and kept in an insulated container.

If you use fresh basil (and presumably other fresh herbs) the fridge will make then wilt and take on other food smells. They should be placed in a glass of water like flowers. I like herbs—tarragon, rosemary, and oregano are my favorites. I’ve used fresh and dried, and find the dried herbs more flavorful and convenient.

Garlic should not be refrigerated as it will grow moldy from the moisture and start to sprout.

Honey lasts seemingly forever.

Refrigerating it causes it to crystallize.

Olive oil is big in my house. I use it in place of butter for everything except baking. In the fridge, it will solidify like butter; best to keep it in a cool, dark place.

Butter is tricky. I know folks who keep it out and those who refrigerate butter religiously. The USDA recommends refrigeration and freezing for butter kept a long time.

Here’s a new one for me. Soy milk doesn’t need to be refrigerated before opening and can last a year before opening. Once opened, consume it in about five days.

Older Millennials—those born more to the list of woes burdening America’s Zuckerberg generation, in the early 1980s—will need about because that’s how much many $1.8 million stashed away to maintain their standard of living in retiremight need to save to retire. ment while younger Millennials— those born in the late 1990s—will need somewhere around $2.5 million, according to various studies, Please call 323-442-6453 to schedule your estimates and experts.

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Should we be sounding the financial alarms here?

We just learned that 44% of Millennials are underemployed, stuck in low-wage, dead end jobs, and if that consists of Ramen Noodles and livThe University of Southern California (USC) has ing paycheck to paycheck, at what point does a $1,000 per month savstarted a new population based eye study called ings plan kick in? Don’t even mention the $2,000 per month it’s going the African American Eye Disease Study (AFEDS) in to take for the early Millennials.

That’s just the Millennials who’ve Inglewood, CA. By providing eye examinations to found employment. The unemployment rates for recent college graduresidents in the community, AFEDS will help ates range from 6-12%. As graphs show, unemployment curbs as graduimprove the understanding of eye disease among ates invest time in the search for emAfrican-American adults. ployment and eventually land jobs.

Nonetheless, those formative years right out of college are years spent (Continued on page 10)

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UFW Continues Work of Cesar Chavez migration act.

California, the biggest agricultural employer in the nation, is one of a handful of states with any overtime protection at all for farm workers. However, these laborers only receive extra pay after working a grueling 10 hours a day. The fight for pay equality continues.

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Cesar Chavez Currently, the UFW is lobbying to bring pay wages for farm workers in line with other workers. According to the website: The UFW is determined to right this wrong. The group is sponsoring AB 2757, “The Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016.” The bill was introduced on February 19 in California’s legislature and would gradually move toward paying California’s farm workers overtime if they work more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week by the year 2020.

This isn’t the first time the UFW has led this battle. They had two previous efforts to enact an eighthour overtime law in California. The first passed the legislature in 2010, but was vetoed by then-Governor Schwarzenegger. The second lost by just a handful of votes in the Assembly in 2012. The new law would be phased in over four stages in order to make it easier for employers to implement. Hillary Clinton wrote to top CA legislators to convey her strong support for this legislation.

“Excluding farm workers from overtime after eight hours was wrong in 1938. It’s wrong now. This deplorable caste system must end ... and it starts in California, which provides over half of America’s fresh produce and sets the pace for the entire nation,” the website says.

Farm workers deserve the same overtime as other workers. Farm workers toil for low wages hour after hour, often in extreme temperatures and dangerous conditions. Even worse, farm workers are some of the only workers in America that are not paid overtime after an eight-hour day or 40-hour week. To sign the pledge, go to the website at http://action.ufw.org.

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ack in 1938, the federal Fair Labor Standards Act set minimum wages and overtime for nearly all workers in the country.

To win the votes needed to pass the legislation, President Roosevelt had to appease Southern lawmakers. He was forced to exempt farm and domestic workers—then mostly African Americans in the rural South. During the debate, one Florida congressman actually declared, “You cannot put the Negro and the white man on the same basis and get away with it ... This bill, like the anti-lynching bill, is another political goldbrick for the Negro.”

While Congress was working to keep the status quo, denying equal employment benefits to people of color, a young Latino was enduring the effects of this hardship. Today, 78 years later, when farm workers are mainly Latino, this shameful legacy of racism and discrimination still infects our society.

Cesar Chavez devoted his life toward insuring fair pay and decent working conditions for migrant farmers. Born into a Latin-American family in Yuma, Arizona in 1927, Chavez experienced poverty during the Great Depression. After losing their businesses, his family moved to California and settled as migrant farm workers. He quit school in 1942, when he was in 7th grade, because he wanted to help his mother in the fields. The family struggled, working long hours and barely making ends meet.

In 1962, he co-founded National Farm Workers Association with Dolores Huerta. The organization was later renamed United Farm Workers. He also supported the Delano Grape Strike by Filipino American farm workers who fought for higher wages, three years later.

In 1965, along with the NFWA, he led a strike of California grape pickers on the momentous farmhands march from Delano to the California state capitol in Sacramento for parallel goals. This strike persisted for five years and attracted extensive national attention.

During his lifetime, Chavez went on many hunger strikes and led boycotts to draw attention to the plight of farm workers. In the 1980s, he led a boycott to protest the use of toxic pesticides on grapes. He also went on a hunger strike or as he called it, “spiritual fasts,” to garner more public attention. During this time, he also became one of the key figures in getting the exoneration provisions into the 1986 federal im-

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Rep. Maxine Waters Introduces Legislation to End Homelessness

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n March 23, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, introduced landmark legislation that would provide significant resources to end homelessness in America.

The measure is a bold effort to declare what is really needed to address this crisis.

The legislation provides $13.27 billion in new funding over five years to several programs and initiatives that will help the nearly 600,000 Americans who are currently homeless—over 170,000 of whom are unsheltered, over 83,000 of whom are chronically homeless, and nearly 130,000 of whom are under the age of 18. These new resources will provide access to both housing and supportive services to help the homeless achieve safe, decent, and affordable housing as well as long-term, positive life outcomes.

“It is all too common to hear Mem-

Maxine Waters bers on both sides of the aisle express their concerns about the homeless, but it takes more than sympathy to address this issue; it takes robust resources,” Rep. Waters said. “That is why today I introduced a bill that will finally provide the funds necessary to end homelessness in this country. For far too long, we have lacked the resources to help all of those in need and I urge my colleagues to support this bill if they are serious about achieving this goal.”

“It is simply shameful that there are nearly 600,000 homeless people living on the streets in the richest country in the world,” Rep. Waters continued. “But this is not an insurmountable problem. We know how to end homelessness in America; what is lacking is the political will to put the necessary resources behind the solutions we know will work.”

The measure, entitled “The Ending Homelessness Act of 2016,” is designed as an emergency relief bill that would provide immediate funding to address homelessness in America, targeting those areas where homelessness has reached crisis proportions. This approach is similar to other emergency relief and recovery bills that provided critical funding during the height of a crisis, including the Hurricane Katrina emergency relief funding bills of 2005 and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

Rep. Waters’ legislation includes the following funding amounts over and above what is already annually provided for these existing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs: • $5 billion in McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants funding, with a significant portion of the funding targeted for chronically homeless individuals and families, which is expected to fund approximately 85,000 new permanent supportive housing units; • $2.5 billion for special purpose Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV), which is expected to provide affordable housing for homeless families, youth, and individuals on an ongoing basis and create an additional 295,000300,000 subsidized HCV units; • $1.05 billion annually in mandatory spending dedicated to the National Housing Trust Fund, (Continued on page 10)

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Trump is a master of getting media attention. From sexist and racist comments, to inciting violence at his rallies, he is running the media like his former reality TV show.

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Women’s History Month Millennial Women Disconnect With Feminism workforce but account for less than four percent of the nation´s top executives.

• Three of every four women report having been sexually harassed during their educational or professional career.

Yet, many millennials will tell you that opportunities for them have never been better. They don’t consider it necessary to be a “feminist” to be treated equally.

When CNN reporter Hannah Weinberger interviewed young women 1829, many expressed a disconnect between their reality as women and the ideology of feminism.

Amelia Vereb, 25, a media relations manager, said, “What they preach and what I’m actually experiencing, or noticing ... don’t always align…Considering how terrifying the job market was when I graduated, I feel like I’ve been able to achieve the type of success that I had hoped for at this point in my life.”

For Sharon Rosenblatt, 24, a document remediation officer in

Maryland, equality means women should not be given preferences in the workplace. She believes both maternity and paternity leave are unnecessary financial burdens on employers.

“Why should an employer hire a woman and then pay her for work she isn’t doing? A baby isn’t a medical emergency,” she said.

Lack of information about feminism’s history, both in the classroom and the news media, may explain millennials’ dissatisfaction with the term. “But regardless of what term is used to describe female oppression, the wage gap, a culture that minimizes rape and sexual harassment, the low value placed on domestic work, gender disparities in executive positions and recent legal battles over women’s contraception, millennial feminists say there are still plenty of bones to pick in the realm of inequality,” Weinberger writes.

Young feminists have protested sexual assault and harassment

through anti-rape coalitions and “slut walks,” marches meant to contest victim blaming and the idea that women who dress a certain way deserve to be raped. They engage with each other and with older feminists at conferences and on college campuses.

Some of the ambivalence over feminist labeling has to do with acting feminine vs. the aggressive image of feminism. Erin Matson, Action Vice President for the National Organization for Women, understands the misconception millennials have toward feminism, but doesn’t think the movement needs to rebrand itself to persuade women of its inclusivity.

“I’m not interested in playing language police and if someone says to me, ‘I’m really pissed about what they’re doing to birth control right now in Congress, but I don’t know if I’d call myself a feminist,’ I don’t really care,” Matson said. “I’m going to work with them…”

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This is just one clear example of gender inequality. There’s more: • Women, on average, still earn 76 cents for every dollar a man makes.

• Female graduates earn $8,000 less than their male counterparts within one year of graduating from college.

• Women make up half the U.S.

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L.A. County High School Students Invited to Speak Out About Gun Violence Winner to Receive $1000 Scholarship

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he Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles is joining the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C. to announce a video contest open to high school students in Los Angeles County. The second annual Tony Borbon Youth Scholarship Video Contest invites high school students to submit films/videos on the negative effects of gun violence on youth and the positive actions youth are taking to reduce it.

“Gun violence not only harms the victims, but the entire community,” says Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles Associate Director Daniel Healy. “Youth who witness or experience it have the greatest insight into how we can prevent it from happening in the first place.”

“Young people are facing the impacts of gun violence and their voices deserve to be heard,” adds Violence Policy Center Executive Director Josh Sugarmann. “In Los Angeles County, we hope this contest gives young people the opportunity to share their experiences and articulate their visions for how we can work together to save lives.”

Contest entries are due by July

1, 2016. Films/videos can be three minutes long or less. The winner will receive the Tony Borbon Youth Scholarship in the amount of $1000, and the runnerup will receive $500. The winner will be honored at the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles Angel of Peace Awards Luncheon on September 21, 2016.

The Scholarship is named after Tony Borbon, who helped establish the Violence Prevention Co-

NCNW Open to New Members

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he National Council of Negro Women, (NCNW) is holding its annual membership drive.

NCNW is a non-profit, 501c3 organization focused on the empowerment of African-American women through education, health awareness, and community service. The organization was founded in 1935

by Mary McLeod Bethune, and is now a national organization with over 240 sections, with 19 sections in Southern California.

Locally, the View Park Section’s signature program “Save Ourselves Sisters2” focuses on girls age 8-18, and offers the following life skills: health & wellness, etiquette, HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention, cyber bullying, sex trafficking prevention, positive imagery, domestic violence prevention, hair care, foster youth advocacy, job preparedness, and parenting classes for both girls and participants parents.

Fulfilling our mission state-

ment to “lead and advocate for women of African decent as they support their families and communities,” we strive to maintain continued outreach to our community making a real difference.

NCNW reaches nearly 4 million women through 39 affiliates and its sections by providing services, and disseminating information about issues affecting African-American women and their families. The organization supports youths and women in career development and community leadership; it focuses on promoting healthy lifestyles and behaviors through wellness programs; and emphasizes economic development and entrepreneurship by providing educational support, etiquette training, and mentoring programs to young people.

If interested in joining NCNW, please contact Najah Roberts at najahroberts@gmail.com or call (310) 795-4451.

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If you’re part of a family business, there’s good news and bad news, says Family Business USA president Henry Hutcheson.

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ore than 70 percent of all businesses in the United States are family businesses, generating more than half of the U.S. Gross National Product (GNP). However, two out of three don’t survive to the next generation, and with 500,000 new businesses starting each month in the United States, family businesses are replaced at a rapid rate.

How does a family business remain on the plus side of these statistics?

“There are a number of sound practices while sustaining a family business,” Hutcheson says, “but there’s a big difference between working with your children and lining up your succession plan with your kids in mind.”

Hutcheson, author of “Dirty Little Secrets of Family Business” (dirtylittlesecretsoffamilybusiness.com), provides tips for dealing with the biggest threat to a family business —surviving transition to the next generation.

• Identify your children’s individual strengths. It’s impossible for your son or daughter to think and act exactly like you. If you’re the

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founder of the business, this may be even more difficult to keep in mind because you started a business from scratch. Your children may not have the same entrepreneurial spirit.

That’s perfectly okay, because your business is in a different stage from when you started it. While experience has given you a large bank of knowledge, allow your successor to shine and contribute at their pace.

Guide them gently; they will want to do some things their own way.

Let them know when they’ve done something exceptional, especially if you wouldn’t have thought of it.

• Expose your children to all aspects of the job. Merchandising, production, management, buying, marketing, financial planning – the list goes on regarding all the things to understand in general management. You may not be an expert in all areas, but you know more than the average employee. To start preparing your children for the top position, they must understand how things work at the bottom. When they’ve spent time in the trenches, they better comprehend operations, (Continued on page 11)

Myth Busting the Adjustable Rate Mortgage

n pop culture, myths can sometimes be mistaken for truth. Common ones, like, “don’t swim for a half hour after eating,” or “we only use 10 percent of our brain,” are false even though they’re widely taken for fact.

The adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) earned a bad rap after the 2006 housing crisis. The problem was, before the crisis, many borrowers were able to qualify for more home than they could actually afford by using interest-only, No Income Verification or No Ratio ARM products. When the housing market tanked and many houses lost value, some homeowners with rising mortgage payments either foreclosed or walked away from their properties.

Fast forward 10 years to today.

The ARM is back to show potential homebuyers it’s not the villain of the housing market. It’s time to debunk the myths that give ARMs the “bad guy” reputation it doesn’t deserve.

Myth: ARMs are unstable and aren’t a good option while the Feds are raising rates.

This myth stems back to the days

of the 2008 recession. It’s like saying, “dial-up is the fastest way to access the Internet,” it’s just not true anymore. All ARM loans have annual and lifetime caps, so there’s built in protection. If stability is what you’re concerned with, consider an ARM with a longer adjustment period. For example, Navy Federal Credit Union’s 5/5 ARM adjusts only once over the initial 10-year period.

Interest rates rise and fall in cycles. Even if rates are increasing now, that doesn’t mean they won’t be on the downturn when you arrive at your potential adjustment point.

Many ARM mortgage holders never refinance to a fixed rate because the many ups and downs of the market happen in-between their adjustment points. Refinancing is always an option for those with ARMs. Just remember to calculate closing costs on your refinance to make sure you’re actually improving your situation. Research and the guidance of a trusted lender will be the winning combo for saving money over (Continued on page 10)

What Is the Best Loan for You? (Part 1 of 4)

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By Odest T. Riley, Jr., President, WLM Financial Services

nderstanding what loan is best for you isn’t always as simple as it might seem. With so many different kinds of loans, many of us end up in situations that might not be in our financial favor.

Most of us just want to own a home, so when someone tells us they have a way of making that happen we don’t ask too many questions. The problem is once we have signed on the dotted line and that 30-year mortgage is already in place, we start to ask questions, and it’s already too late.

An FHA loan is a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Borrowers with FHA loans pay for mortgage insurance, which protects the lender from a loss if we default on the loan. Because of that insurance, lenders can—and do—offer FHA loans at attractive interest rates and with less stringent and more flexible qualification requirements. The FHA is an agency within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

To get a mortgage with a down payment as low as 3.5%, the borrower needs a credit score of 580 or higher. Those with credit scores between 500 and 579 must make down payments of at least 10%.

People with credit scores under 500 generally are ineligible for FHA loans. The FHA will make allowances under certain circumstances for applicants who have what it calls “nontraditional credit history or insufficient credit” if they meet requirements. But you will have to ask your FHA lender or an FHA loan specialist if you qualify.

FHA borrowers can use their own savings to make the down payment. But other allowed sources of cash include a gift from a family member or a grant from a state or local government down-

Odest T. Riley, Jr. payment assistance program.

However seeing as the FHA is not a lender, but rather an insurer, we need to get our loans through an FHA-approved lender (as opposed to directly from the FHA). Not all FHA-approved lenders offer the same interest rate and costs—even on the same FHA loan.

With the FHA loan, you will have to pay two mortgage insurance premiums. The upfront premium is 1.75% of the loan amount—$1,750 for a $100,000 loan. This is paid when you get your loan. It can be added into the total cost of the home purchase.

The second is called the annual premium, although it is paid monthly. It varies based on the length of the loan, the amount borrowed and the initial loan-to-value ratio, or LTV. You also get FHA insurance, which isn’t intended to be an easy out for people who feel unhappy about their mortgage payments.

But loan servicers can offer some help to us if we have an FHA-insured loan, have suffered a serious financial hardship and are struggling to make our payments. That relief might be a temporary period of forbearance, a loan modification that would lower the interest (Continued on page 11)

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Myth Busting the Adjustable Rate Mortgage (Continued from page 9) the life of your mortgage.

Myth: ARMs are only for people who want to be in a home for a few years.

Not true. ARMs have fixed intro periods that can vary from one to even 15 years. If you think you’ll own that home for five or six years, a fixed mortgage rate may have a higher interest rate over that span. So why spend the extra money associated for the added security of a fixed rate?

“The potential savings on an ARM, can range from $10,000 to $20,000, compared to a 30-year, fixed rate jumbo mortgage,” said Katie Miller, Navy Federal vice president of Mortgage Lending. “That’s enough money for a down-payment on a car, or part of your child’s college tuition.”

Again, it pays to plan for various scenarios based on how long you plan to own the home.

Myth: Rates only rise when you have an ARM. The term “adjustable” gives the misconception ARMs are unstable. The ARM is very similar to a fixed-rate mortgage; both offer a 30-year term with

no prepayment penalty and early payoff options, among other similarities.

The intro rate period (usually a lower rate) and potential rate changes (up or down) over the life of the loan is what makes an ARM unique. Knowing your cap and what the difference in payments are over the life of the loan protects you, even if rates are on a roller coaster. Knowledge is power as an ARM holder. That “power” helps you make necessary calculations to figure out a yearly breakeven point should your interest rate increase and your introductory rate savings begin to decrease. Check out an ARM vs. Fixed-rate Mortgage Calculator to see if this type of mortgage works for you.

Like any myth, do your research before accepting it at face value. If you add up the ARM’s initial savings plus the cost to refinance, an ARM is hard to beat from a financial standpoint, and that, is the truth.

Source: BPT *Rates are based on an evaluation of credit history, so your rate may differ. **Navy Federal is federally insured by NCUA. Navy Federal is an Equal Housing Lender

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Publisher’s Message (Continued from page 5) driven by advertising is that the facts become muddy.

Too much focus is given to Trump’s personality, and not enough to his potential as the leader of the free world. It’s an awesome responsibility, which cannot be taken lightly.

As President Barack Obama said to a group of reporters in New York this week, referring to the current presidential campaign: “I was going to call it a ‘carnival atmosphere,’ but that implies fun.” Having a president who regularly spews out expletives, insults women and people of color and takes no responsibility for his outlandish remarks is no laughing matter.

Speaking at a Syracuse University awards ceremony honoring the late political journalist Robin Toner, Obama urged journalists to

be more thorough in reporting news and tone down the sensationalism.

For reporters, Obama said, “a job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone.”

The billions of dollars in free media should come with “serious accountability, especially when politicians issue unworkable plans or make promises they can’t keep,” he said.

While many would view the Enquirer or TMZ with a bit of skepticism, mainstream outlets are not immune from sensationalism.

It is well known that the L.A. Times has a history of hyping up negative aspects of minority neighborhoods, and ignoring the positive.

This is why Inglewood Today was started. There needed to be more balanced reporting, stories that accurately reflect people of color.

The negative stereotyping of Inglewood is becoming a thing of the past, thanks to obvious progress in the city.

Despite recent potshots being taken at Inglewood, some stakeholders are setting the record straight, by writing editorials. If non-journalists can do this, then there is no excuse for professionals not to be balanced in their reporting.

Inglewood cannot be economically depressed, as the Times reported, and attract billion-dollar investors at the same time.

Bottom line, it will take all of us, journalists, activists and registered voters, to go beyond the hype of news outlets driven by ratings. We need to ask the tough questions of candidates, even when journalists don’t, because our future is at stake, and this is a reality that we will have to live with for the next 4 years.

Millennials Need Nearly $2 Million to Retire (Continued from page 2) without any future investments being made as well.

So why do Millennials, aka Gen Y, need so much set aside? First, there’s the issue of inflation. Assuming a 2% inflation rate, a $1 million nest egg today would be worth about $530,000 in 32 years, which is when Mil-

lennials now in their mid30s are expected to retire, and roughly $386,000 in 48 years, when the youngest Millennials are expected to call it quits.

What does this mean? Millennials who got off to a late start, will have to start saving aggressively now if they aspire to have the same standard of living in retirement as they did when working. And

for the Boomlets (born after 2001) one can only imagine that with our shrinking Social Security programs, and 2% inflation, they may need $3 to $4 million tucked away. It might be a great time in underserved communities to begin implementing financial literacy programs in our curriculums.

Rep. Maxine Waters • $500 million in outreach Introduces Legislation funding to ensure that to End Homelessness homeless people are con(Continued from page 4) nected to the resources which in the first five they need; and years of funding is ex- • $20 million in technical pected to create approxiassistance funding to help mately 25,000 new units states and localities align affordable to extremely health and housing syslow-income households, tems. ensuring that rents are afHomelessness within mafordable for tenants; jor cities, which accounts for

48 percent of all homeless people in the United States, increased by three percent between 2014 and 2015, according to HUD’s most recent Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress.[1] Homelessness in many major cities has reached crisis proportions, causing some to declare that (Continued on page 12)

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D at e s i n Ap r i l -J u n e April 9, 2016 First Time Home Buyers Seminar Tired of paying rent? WLM wants to move you into home ownership. This seminar will guide you through the home buying process, show you what the qualifications are and what financing is available.

It will be held from 12:00-1:30pm, 111 N. La Brea Ave., 5th Floor, Inglewood, 90301.Take advantage of the current economic rebound!

Call (310) 905-7421 or email info@wlmfinancial to RSVP.

Councilman Padilla at the Baskin Robbins Grand Opening with owners, Naviv and David. Over two hundred people attended the grand opening. The location of the ice cream parlor is 911 N. La Brea Ave. in District 2.

How to Survive Generational Transition in Family Business (Continued from page 9) and the kind of people they’ll need to employ in the future.

• Stretch your children’s abilities by having them work for another company. The period after graduation is a scary phase of life, but jumping into the family business right away isn’t the best move. Children have an urge to distinguish themselves from their parents, and working for another company is a great way to do so.

Let them spread their wings, learn new things and appreciate small victories outside of the business.

If and when they choose to work for the family business, they’ll feel better about the decision.

“A mentoring relationship toward the next generation is also extremely helpful,” Hutcheson says. “It provides a realistic but loving perspective.”

Henry Hutcheson is president of Family Business USA (www.familybusinessusa.com) and specializes in helping family and privately

held businesses successfully manage transition, maintain harmony, and improve operations. He is a popular speaker at professional, university and corporate-sponsored events.

What Is the Best Loan for You? (Continued from page 9) rate or extend the payback period, or a possible deferment of interest.

Just remember it’s all about finding the loan that fits you and your family best. At WLM Financial, our goal and my dream is to teach people how to get in the position to be financially free, and with a little bit of hard work and endurance you can get there.

If you have any questions on anything from how to find an FHA lender, or just to get more details, feel free to call me anytime at 310905-7420, email odest@wlmfinancial.com or visit our Facebook page at wlmfinancial. We will be giving money saving tips all year long.

April 23, 2016 Free Seminar on Home Improvement Loans WLM will host another free, informative seminar on home ownership. “Don’t Move, Improve Your Home!” will take place 12:001:30pm, 111 N. La Brea Ave., 5th Floor, Inglewood, 90301. Topics will include the benefits of staying and improving your home, home renovation and rehab loans, turning your home into an investment and much more.

Get pre-approved for a loan on the spot! Call (310) 905-7421or email info@wlmfinancial to find out what documents to bring and to RSVP. April 23, 2016 Spring Pier to Pier Run/Walk Ready to get into summer shape? Kick off your spring fitness goals on the beach with the pier-to-pier run/walk. Participants will run or walk from Hermosa Beach Pier to Manhattan Beach Pier and back. The race begins at 8am. Registration is $35 per person until March 12, and $40 afterward. To register, call (310) 980-9339, visit Mbbootcamp.com, or call (310) 546-1888 and visit Villagerunner.com.

May 14, 2016 Walk to Cure Arthritis Over 3,500 runners and walkers will be on hand at the 2016 Walk to Cure Arthritis at Exposition Park – South Lawn in Los Angeles. The Walk to Cure Arthritis brings together communities to fight arthritis, raise money and offer support for the nation’s leading cause of disability.

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WalktoCureArthritis.org/LosAngeles or contact Debbie Martin at 323954-5760. To learn more about the Arthritis Foundation’s quest to cure arthritis, visit www.arthritis.org.

June 11-12, 2016 Relay for Life Join your Inglewood friends and neighbors at Crozier Middle School, 120 W. Regent St., from 9am to 9am and help stamp out cancer in our lifetime. The annual Relay for Life event is a walk and run that raises money to support cancer patients.

Organized by the American Cancer Society. To participate, sign up online at http://relay.acsevents.org and join the team for your district.

Ongoing Talk to a Lawyer Online In cooperation with the City of Inglewood, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) now offers a teleconferencing center at the Main Library, where you can speak to a lawyer live, and send them documents. They offer legal advice and guidance on a variety of civil matters, including evictions, divorces, and child custody.

They can provide referrals to private attorneys, other legal services, or other resources as needed.

Hours for teleconferencing are every Wednesday from 11am to 2pm.

Ask the Audio/Visual Desk assistant for help or call ahead for an appointment at (310) 412-5380.

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“In Los Angeles County alone, homelessness increased by a staggering 20 percent between 2014 and 2015,” Rep. Waters said. “We all remember how, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Congress came together in a bipartisan way

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process. Previously, she led Committee Democrats in requesting that Financial Services Chairman Hensarling hold hearings on ending homelessness. The Chairman has yet to respond to or act upon the request. Additionally, she hosted a Capitol Hill briefing with activist, actor and philanthropist Richard Gere as well as housing experts on the crisis of homelessness in America.