only to be sued by mariner within a year for over thirty two hundred dollars hutchens told the washington post it would have been cheaper for me to go out and borrow money from the mob hudgens is the victim of a business model that's whorish to ever since the federal government crackdown on the payday lending industry. and while payday lending is shady enough you could probably figure that out because the person pitching quick and easy cash looks like you missed a st patrick's day parade after doing a line of green coke off the show laili installment lending has the potential to drag you even deeper into debt than payday lending ever did and in the case of error finance they made their money by lending at branson as high as thirty six percent making millions of dollars by charging borrowers for insurance policies of questionable value operating an insurance company in the turks and caicos where regulations are notably lats and aggressive allegedly practices that include calling delinquent customers once a day and embarrassing them by calling their friends and relatives whatever merit or f

and i want to say particular thank you to the hutchens center at well. i'm a fellow there but they have helped mid wife this book over the years and it's wonderful they helped support this reading tonight. i'm going to be brief. want to leave lots of time for questions and answers. so i'm going to do just a brief overview of, a quick reading and then finish up with my dear friend, reading a brief little speech from the book and then we'll have questions and answers. i'm particularly thrilled to be here today because it's june juneteenth, i'm overwhelmed and delighted i'm here today on this special day. seems right to start with a quote from boston's own william lloyd garrison, quote that starts the book. he made an interesting trip in 1853 that a lot of people are not aware of. he called it's trip to the great west, which sounds like the rockie mountains, sounds like california, but he actually meant the region we now call the midwest, ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, and wisconsin. but in 1853, there was still a legacy 0, cultural legacy of think of t