I’m so far past being angry and frustrated. I have to fight my way UP to those feelings. Leaching off family and friends is degrading when I should be, and want to be supporting myself.”
-Name Withheld
While everyone in Washington is patting themselves on the back, touting the lowest black unemployment in years, there is still double the joblessness in the black community. Double that again in the poorest areas of our inner city. Then if you’ve been incarcerated, it is much worse. In Marion County alone there are around 140,000 ex-offenders who have almost no chance of finding work.
They’ve paid their debt to society, but they cannot pay the debts associated with family responsibilities. Join us at the next UNITE INDY Forum: Indy’s Urban Employment Crisis, May 15th at Brookside Community Church. It’s a Tuesday, this is important. Register now.
“…With God, all things are possible” – Matthew 19:26
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