Michelle Singletary: 'You Need Diversity'

The Long View

Morningstar

Finance, Dan Lefkovitz, Amy Arnott, Entrepreneurship, Investing Leaders, Jeff Ptak, Investors, Christine Benz, Influential Investors, Careers, Long-term Investing, Financial Services, Business, Investing, Morningstar

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The author and Washington Post columnist discusses the personal-finance effects of the pandemic, the racial wealth gap, and how the financial-services industry can better serve a diverse population.

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0:32.6	Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Jeff Patak, Global Director of Manager Research for Morningstar
0:37.3	Research Services. And I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance for Morningstar, Inc.
0:42.7	Our guest on the podcast today is personal finance columnist and author Michelle Singletary.
0:48.5	Michelle writes the nationally syndicated column, The Color of Money, which appears in the Washington
0:52.9	Post, as well as in dozens of other
0:55.4	newspapers nationwide. She's also the author of three personal finance books. The most recent
1:00.4	was called The 21-day Financial Fast, Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom. Michelle is a frequent
1:07.5	guest on TV and radio, and she was host of her own national television program, Singletary Says, on TV One.
1:14.8	She's a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park. She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master's degree in business and management.
1:26.2	Michelle, welcome to the Longview. Oh, you're so welcome.
1:30.3	So to start off, you spend a lot of time answering questions from consumers. Have the various
1:34.5	attempts to provide economic relief to people who have been affected by the virus been sufficient in
1:40.6	your view? I think for the vast majority of people who receive the stimulus payment,
1:46.3	it has helped them. I've heard from many people from across economic stratas, so people,
1:53.4	you know, who are working low-waste jobs, so even professionals who have lost their jobs or their
1:59.0	hours have been reduced. And they all said those who have received their payments or their hours have been reduced.
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