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Debt: An American Tragedy

After learning her mother took out $200,000 of debt in her name, Kristen Collier felt betrayed. Her new book traces how it ...
As President Biden moves closer to canceling at least some student debt in the near future, many higher education advocates and members of Congress are concerned that cancellation without broader ...
In October, President Joe Biden announced an additional tranche of student loan forgiveness, bringing the total approved debt cancellation by his administration to $127 billion. Some might say that ...
Thousands of people languish in jail cells before ever going to trial, merely because they cannot afford bail. Families of those who are detained may be saddled with thousands of dollars of debt with ...
If Occupy evolves into a debt resistance movement, the results could be explosive. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators participating in a street-theater production wear signs around their neck ...
Ms. Taylor is a co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. Conversations about debt are never purely about economics. They are always, also, conversations about power, morality and shame.
Iowa lawmakers want to overhaul the state's court debt system after the Iowa Judicial Branch misallocated $27.5 million over five years after a series of law changes. The Iowa Senate voted unanimously ...
On a warm October evening, in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood in a baseball field in Pittsburgh, delivering an impassioned speech about passion’s improbable subject: the federal budget.
A dozen members of Debt Collective were arrested at a Capitol Hill protest in May demanding that President Joe Biden “fund education, not genocide.” Before they were taken away by police, the ...