Newark First Lady Linda Baraka is spearheading a new financial literacy program empowering 1,000 women across the city.
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“We know that women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Their wages have been historically less than their male counterparts,” she said. “ something that starts with the women, but it transfers into our whole community because we know that if our women are taken care of, our community is taken care of, because at the end of the day, the women are the backbone of our community.”
Dr. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the chairman and CEO of Dfree, said that the program curriculum is based on a workbook he created titled “12 Steps to Financial Freedom.” His hope, he said, was to witness the women of Newark achieve multiple financial milestones.
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