Quote of the Month: April 2018
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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 WithheldWhile 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
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
About Jim Cotterill
Jim Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. After a decade as the founding president of National Christian Foundation Indiana following several years developing a chain of Business Journals across the country, he and his wife, Nancy, were led to serve those coming out of long term incarceration by helping them find and keep jobs that pay a living wage. Jim and Nancy believe that, through the dignity of work, reentrants' lives can be changed and their families can be lifted out of poverty.
