When a short-term money crisis hits a family, payday predatory lenders are there for the working poor. These lenders reap huge interest payments that, according to the Federal Trade Commission, can reach up to 390 APR. Meanwhile these companies regularly take working people down the path to bankruptcy. The car broke down and you have…Continue reading Payday Lenders: Another Chance to Fix This
Read about whether loan shark mobsters are supported by the Indiana Legislature, how Unite Indy’s Lamon Rush helps guide reentrants to jobs, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our February 2023 newsletter.
Last week a 15-year old and 17-year old were arrested for the shooting of a 15-year-old girl on the City’s far east side. Also last week a national newspaper reported statistics on juvenile homicide. It’s reported that juvenile murderers acting alone rose 30 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, while homicides committed by multiple…Continue reading “Just Kids Killing Kids”
UNITE INDY started in December, 2016, so we have recently passed our 5th anniversary! Yes, five years of disappointments, mistakes and some smashing successes (if we do say so ourselves). 🙂 All those things have worked to elevate our ability to impact poverty as we find employment for those who are reentering society after incarceration….Continue reading Five Years Old: Our Disappointments, Mistakes, & Goals Realized
Read about Unite Indy’s support of the You Yes You! Project which helps incarcerated fathers build and maintain relationships with their children, the top 10 pitfalls for reentrants to avoid as they are released from incarceration, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our January 2023 newsletter.
I picked up a book at a Vintage fair just before Christmas. It was a slim little volume, written by Bud Robinson, who was born in 1860 into a family of seven children, all living in a tiny, windowless, dirt-floored log cabin in the hills of Tennessee. His father was a mean drunkard who owned…Continue reading What Are We Made Of?
For all those working with reentrants, or related to someone who is incarcerated, I end this year with my take on some of the important lessons I’ve learned about the pitfalls that sidetrack even the most success-oriented returnees. Here you go: Pitfall #1 – Thinking I’m back!: You are not… yet. Reentry is a marathon,…Continue reading Avoiding the Top 10 Reentry Pitfalls
Read about Lamon Rush, who has joined our team to staff the Reentry Room in the new Indianapolis-Marion County Adult Detention Center, our discussion with Park 100 Foods’ executive team about continued reentrant hiring, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our December 2022 newsletter.
Recently there has been an exodus of folks from a large popular church here. People who were staunchly committed to a certain ideology found that the temperature had changed and some foundational beliefs were now considered to be out-of-date. In response, a group of long-time members picked up and went elsewhere for their divine guidance….Continue reading When A Church Splits
We’ve talked until we are blue in the face about the awful consequence of predatory lending, how they are aimed directly at the working poor, or anyone with any income at all. They target those on disability or folks on Social Security—any trickle of money—if its there, they plan to get it. Predatory lenders influence…Continue reading Breaking Bad – Fair Loans For Low Income People
