Toxic Debt

Toxic Debt
Author: Josiah Rector
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2022-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469665778

From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries turned those risks into disasters with predatory loans to African American homebuyers, and to an increasingly indebted city government. Following years of cuts in welfare assistance to poor families and a devastating subprime mortgage meltdown, the state of Michigan used municipal debt to justify suspending democracy in majority-Black cities. In Detroit and Flint, austerity policies imposed under emergency financial management deprived hundreds of thousands of people of clean water, with lethal consequences that most recently exacerbated the spread of COVID-19. Toxic Debt is not only a book about racism, capitalism, and the making of these environmental disasters. It is also a history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health in the city and involved radical auto workers, ecofeminists, and working-class women fighting for clean water. Linking the histories of urban political economy, the environment, and social movements, Toxic Debt lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit.

Genesis Financial Coach's Manual

Genesis Financial Coach's Manual
Author: Chad Durniak
Publisher: Elm Hill
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595558942

Many people in our churches and communities struggle to pay their bills, put food on their table and find a way to pay down their debt. Some have very little financial resources at their disposal while others face severe financial circumstances. Regardless of their financial hardship, there is a new way to help these individuals and families get a fresh start with their finances and it can all begin with You!The Genesis Financial Coach’s Manual is a step by step guide through the Genesis Financial Program for mature Christians who desire to come along side and become Financial Coach’s to individuals and families who are struggling financially. It is packed with financial tools, techniques and strategies that are rooted in God’s word and specifically designed to help bring financial transformation to the financially underserved. Conveniently located in the Genesis Financial Coach’s Manual is the Genesis Financial Workbook. This workbook is what each client receives and works through with their Financial Coach. The Genesis Financial Program is personalized biblical financial counseling geared towards the poor, needy, homeless or soon to be homeless in our community. Financial Coach’s meet regularly with their clients in an individual or in a small group setting to develop and build a relationship that fosters true financial change. We believe that anyone, regardless of how little their resources, can learn how to manage their finances properly when they are given a fresh start to build on the right foundation. The Genesis Financial Coach’s Manual and the Genesis Financial Workbook do just that by providing the basics of God’s truth on money coupled with a simple financial plan that is easy to follow.Over a period of ten weeks, a client and their Financial Coach will work through the three main sections, each of which will challenge the client to grow spiritually and financially. They include:1. Me, Myself and God’s Money: Together, you will work through the first three chapters of the workbook learning foundational spiritual concepts that affect our understanding of God and money, our overall financial condition and how we make financial decisions. 2. Steps to Financial Stability: The Steps to Financial Stability will walk the client through a slow and steady process towards building a simple and easy to use financial plan that honors God3. The Road Ahead: The Road Ahead gives practical financial wisdom that will set the client up for financial success in the near and long term. Our hope is that no Christian faces their financial challenges alone. You can be that person who teaches, encourages and brings accountability to people in desperate financial need and it can all be done through the Genesis Financial Program and the Genesis Financial Coach’s Manual. For more information on the Genesis Financial Program, please visit www.alphastrategies.org.

Genesis Financial Workbook

Genesis Financial Workbook
Author: Chad Durniak
Publisher: Elm Hill
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1595541233

Anyone, regardless of how little their resources, can learn how to manage their finances properly when they are given a fresh start to build on the right foundation. The Genesis Financial Workbook does just that by providing the basics of God’s truth on money coupled with a simple financial plan that is easy to follow. Perfect for those brand new to managing their money or those facing severe financial challenges, The Genesis Financial Workbook is a great tool to help put Christ at the center of your finances. Over a period of ten weeks, you will work through the Workbook’s three sections, each of which will challenge you to grow spiritually and financially. They include:1. Me, Myself and God’s Money: Here, you will work through the first three chapters of the workbook learning foundational spiritual concepts that affect our understanding of God and money, our overall financial condition and how we make financial decisions. 2. Steps to Financial Stability: Along with your Financial Coach, the Steps to Financial Stability will walk you through a slow and steady process towards building a simple and easy to use financial plan that honors God3. The Road Ahead: The Road Ahead gives practical financial wisdom that will set you up for financial success in the near and long term. The Genesis Financial Workbook is the heart of our biblically based financial counseling process. But our hope is that no Christian faces their financial challenges alone. That is why the Genesis Financial Workbook is most effective when it is accompanied by a Financial Coach using the Genesis Financial Coaches Manual. Financial Coaches meet with you weekly as they go through each chapter teaching, encouraging, answering your financial questions and praying for you. For more information on Financial Coaches and the Genesis Financial Coaches Manual, please visit www.alphastrategies.org. The powerful combination of the Genesis Financial Workbook and a Financial Coach will help you overcome your financial challenges giving you a fresh start with your finances. The workbook is packed full of strategies, tips, activities and real world financial advice making it a perfect place to begin your financial journey with God.

Beating the College Debt Trap

Beating the College Debt Trap
Author: Alex Chediak
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-12-29
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0310337437

A groundbreaking guide to “how you can get the most value for your money . . . If you don’t want to waste a decade languishing in student debt, this is the book” (Zac Bissonnette, New York Times–bestselling author of Debt-Free U). There’s a better way to do college. The radically counter-cultural truth is that students don’t have to be totally dependent on Mom, Dad, or Uncle Sam to get the most out of college. Graduation on a solid financial foundation is possible. But it will require intentionality, creativity, hard work, and a willingness to delay gratification. Alex Chediak gets into the nitty-gritty of how to get work and make money during the college years, pay off any loans quickly, spend less, save more, and stay out of debt for good. He also unpacks how to transition from college into career, honor God while achieving financial independence, and use your finances to make a positive, eternally significant difference in the lives of others. As a young engineering professor with an aptitude for finances and money management, Chediak has become particularly concerned with the financial health of young adults, especially in light of the ever-increasing costs of college. In Beating the College Debt Trap he does something about this problem—addressing the real-world financial issues faced by those in their late teens and early twenties with clarity, practical help, lots of illustrations, and a little humor, while conveying a distinctly Christian perspective.

Debt-Free Living

Debt-Free Living
Author: Larry Burkett
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1575675706

Credit is so easily obtained, and credit card applications flow into our mailboxes virtually every day. Many couples find themselves deeply in debt and not even sure of how they got there, let alone how they can get out of it. Larry Burkett has the solution! His bestselling book, Debt-Free Living, has been updated and modernized. Debt-Free Living has been providing poignant and biblical teaching on debt for over a decade. This updated resource will teach the consumer about the origin of most financial troubles and help him or her break the 'debt cycle.' Debt-Free Living is a necessary resource to battle the temptation and trappings of debt that are weighing you down.

Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold
Author: Gillian Tett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Bank failures
ISBN: 9780349121895

Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to the devastating global credit crunch.

The Crisis of Poverty and Debt in the Third World

The Crisis of Poverty and Debt in the Third World
Author: Martin Dent
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429687443

First published in 1999, this volume, the first to be published in on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation of past inert debt. The cost and benefit of this remission and the groundbreaking concordat of peoples and governments that could accompany it are examined in detail. It contains critiques of the economic bases of the World Bank and IMF approaches to debt management in developing economies, as manifested in structural adjustment programmes and their maintenance, misuse of excess reserves and the methods used to carry out restructuring and development projects. The British anti-slavery campaign saw a mobilisation of public opinion for a great cause. Using this as a source of inspiration, public opinion must again be mobilised for what amounts to the greatest opportunity for justice, compassion and forgiveness facing us all at the beginning of a new millennium.

The Truth about Debt

The Truth about Debt
Author: Themba A. Malashe
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1456607065

The book is the first series of Get Out Of Debt, Now! and it is called The Truth About Debt. It focuses on the knowledge regarding the truth about Debt and encompasses the truth about what debt is, the truth about what can debt do and finally, the truth about preventing yourself from falling into the debt trap. The whole book is based on the Biblical truth about debt and is practical.

Debt

Debt
Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2014-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1612194206

Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.