By last summer, Laqueanda Reneau felt like she had finally gotten her life on track.
A single mother who had gotten pregnant in high school, she supported her family with a series of jobs at coffee shops, restaurants and clothing stores until she landed a position she loved as a community organizer on Chicago’s West Side. At the same time, she was working her way toward a degree in public health at DePaul University.
But one large barrier stood in her way: $6,700 in unpaid tickets, late fines and impound fees.
[For more on this story by Melissa Sanchez and Sandhya Kambhampati, go to https://features.propublica.or...ket-debt-bankruptcy/]
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