bankruptcy
Record rent increases, low wages are driving an eviction crisis, U.S. Senate panel told
WASHINGTON — Witnesses in a Tuesday hearing detailed to a U.S. Senate committee how investors and stagnant wages are driving an eviction and housing crisis across the U.S. The chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, said that families are being priced out of buying homes, and rising […]
How chronic disease drove an Ohio 27-year-old to bankruptcy
An array of different diseases attacked his colon while another clogged the arteries in Kolton Chapman’s brain. Derailing his semesters at Columbus State Community College and saddling Chapman, now 29, with $45,000 in debt he’d never pay off was just collateral damage. “I had been hounded by creditors, all of that, my credit score was […]