If people, including elected public officials, are telling you that we can control the weather, they are wrong. Rhetoric like that is unhelpful at best, and dangerous at worst.
From someone who routinely flies into hurricanes, I assure you that we cannot control the weather.
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“Giving a person a high-cost loan for a problem is like throwing a brick at a drowning person,” says Brent Adams, senior vice president for the @WoodstockInst.
Great to see the savings our neighbors have realized from a 36% rate cap. @HRLcoalition@CareyHamilton1
Take action and urge Chair @RepMikeSpeedy and House Financial Institutions Committee members to promote nonprofit loan centers and hear SB 200 Nonprofit Loan Center Loans for State Employees and help protect Hoosier consumers! Click here: https://t.co/bF0EBdwP9S
If you have a checking or savings account, pay attention…financial institutions in Indiana are trying to strip away your rights.
What can you do? One simple idea: Tag your elected officials in the comments of this article & let them know you want them to #protectconsumers. ⬇️
Another Republican supporting Indiana's pro-child labor bill said that his wife grew up poor and needed to work long hours in high school because "she couldn't afford clothes, and she couldn't afford to get her teeth fixed."
Kids shouldn't have to work to afford clothes and dental care. Our taxes should pay for it.
To our great dismay, today's hearing on #medicaldebt protections for Hoosiers was cancelled. SB 276 will not move forward this session. So here's what we would have liked to share with the committee...1/