In the last five years payday loan companies have drained $322 million out of the Indiana economy in fees and high interest rates, making huge profits off the backs of the poor, mostly affecting those in our urban areas and predominantly people of color, thanks to the Indiana legislature, which in 2002 carved a special…Continue reading News: Set Limits to 36% for Payday Loans
Read about proposed legislation to address payday loan usury, the more than 12,000 ex-offenders rejoining society in Central Indiana each year, and other happenings at Unite Indy in our January 2020 newsletter.
Every year payday loan companies take $70 million out of the Indiana economy in fees and make huge profits off the backs of the poor, mostly affecting those in our urban areas and predominantly people of color. These loans are sold as a solution to a short-term financial need, in truth they are a trap…Continue reading NEWS: Predatory Payday Loans Harm Indiana’s Most Vulnerable Residents
Last week, the Indianapolis Recorder reported on the resignation of Pastor John Girton from Christ Missionary Baptist Church. After five years of leading the church in which he had been baptized, a church that was formerly lead by his uncle, he had to quit. “Pastor G,” as he is commonly called, isn’t old. He’s not…Continue reading Running On Empty
They say that life is ten percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to whatever happened. Since it’s Christmas time, we know from experience that people will be in a hurry and tend to do things like cut us off in traffic, send us a size small when we ordered a…Continue reading How’s Your 90 Percent?
Read about our partner of the month, how you can donate to support Unite Indy, and other happenings at Unite Indy in our December 2019 newsletter.
I’m a little lost. The Christmas season is upon us and I have cards to get out, presents to buy, decorating to be done, and everything that everyone else has probably already accomplished. I’m behind the 8-ball, as people used to say when they were behind on their tasks, and I have decided my excuse…Continue reading Where Are You Christmas?
In case you haven’t been to Florida lately—News Flash—it is warmer there and there are lots of old people. Ok. I don’t really qualify as young either, but visiting my mother-in-law this week was a lesson in how those who are in their upper eighties and nineties handle life in this temperate bastion of retirement…Continue reading Little Things
Read about the Marion County Reentry Coalition, reshaping Black philanthropy, and other happenings at Unite Indy in our November 2019 newsletter.
Many people know that as a result of a UNITE INDY publication that was sent to a prisoner at Putnamville Correctional Facility, I received a letter from an inmate named Jesse. Since then, we have written two or three letters a week back and forth for a couple of years. Letter writing produces a special…Continue reading A Letter From Prison
