Some may not consider this journalism in the truest sense, but I think it is interesting and relevant to the News Hunt. I would like to know more about how the survey was constructed in order to have more confidence in its accuracy.

While snatches of the data are interesting, there seems to be no big coherent conclusions drawn, other than that perhaps African Americans should buy some financial advice.

Well, it's a press release, so expectations are low. It does present important information, but there appears to be no link to the study. The only viewpoints are the two who cooperated to produce the study.

it's difficult to know how to interpret what this survey shows. i'd like to have seen the questions and how respondents were chosen. are those who are more positive trusting the president's plan more than others? are they thinking their own situation has been worse so this isn't as dire? or other possibilities? it raises more questions than answers, but they are interesting questions to become more knowledgeable about.

The piece is a press release by a newsmaker. Arguably, it is not journalism at all. Conspicuously, it omits all blacks-vs-ooverall comparative data as to the criteria it says are most important: whether people are "practical, proactive and prepared". Instead of comparing races as to planning, advisors and actions, it gives comparatives only as to the respondents' feelings and situation. However, even though it does not seek further information than its own data and does not seek expert assessment of the data at all, the article does attempt to report the information it has. And it certainly is an original source on which many journalists may rely, so in that sense it's just as important to read as journalism.