According to a recent survey in the American Journal of Public Health, almost 60 percent of Americans who have filed for bankruptcy cited medical bills as “very much” or “somewhat” responsible for their bankruptcy. That was more than chose student loans or home...
Month: April 2019
What alternatives to foreclosure are available in Florida?
There are a lot of reasons people fall into foreclosure. You may have a balloon mortgage, where your payments suddenly grew to be unaffordable. You may have built up other debts that make paying your mortgage a challenge. You may have lost a job or gained an...
Florida imprisons some 98,000 people. Can we cut that in half?
The ACLU’s Smart Justice initiative has been working on reining in mass-incarceration. The large majority of people in jails and prisons in the United States are held by state and local governments, so reducing over-incarceration at the state level is crucial....