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The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance opens for the 2009-2010 school year with a curriculum focused on finance, financial literacy and the tools for succeeding in business.

Frugality appears to be the order of the day, but African-Americans and Hispanics are making the biggest adjustments to spending, saving and work habits than any other group as a result of the economic recession, according to a national survey conducted for Citigroup Inc.

In the run-up to the 2009 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week in Washington, D.C., this fall, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund is taking issue with a report by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, on the importance of graduation rates in high-schoolers’ decisions about which college or university to attend.

In January, the nation witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama amid one of the worst economic crises it has ever seen, making today the best of times and the worst of times for Black America, the National Urban League says in its 2009 State of Black America report.

With the 2010 Census looming, tens of millions of residents in mostly dense urban areas such as Los Angeles and New York City are at high risk of being missed due to language problems and a deepening economic crisis, government officials say.