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  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Nursing Homes Want to Save Their Bank Accounts, Not Their Patients
    November 10, 2020
    | David Dayen

    The nursing home industry was completely unprepared for the additional care that would be needed during the pandemic.

  • Letters From an American
    Sorry, Wrong Number
    September 29, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Covid-19, Trump's taxes, wildfires and the Breonna Taylor verdict
  • Economy & Work
    Tony-Nominated 'Junk' Playwright Ayad Akhtar on How Wall Street Won
    December 18, 2017
    | Bill Moyers
    In his new play, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar recalls the greed of the '80s and how we became a republic of consumers.
  • Economy & Work
    The 10 Biggest Vulture Firms that Own Puerto Rico's Debt
    October 18, 2017
    | Joel CintrĂ³n Arbasetti, Carla Minet, Alex V. Hernandez and Jessica Stites
    Financial firms are still fighting to get billions out of the bankrupt island as it tries to rebuild.
  • Activism
    Unmasking Puerto Rico's Biggest Debt Holders
    October 12, 2017
    | Sarah Jaffe
    There is a reason they are called vulture funds; it is because they prey on very downtrodden folk.
  • Democracy & Government
    What Can Trump Teach Us About the National Debt?
    May 19, 2016
    | Dean Baker
    He's wrong about the government being able to renegotiate debt like a business, but his talk on debt-to-GDP ratios may prove enlightening.
  • Inequality
    The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods
    October 9, 2015
    | Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman
    A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica shows that the suits are far more common in black communities than white ones.
  • Inequality
    Millennials Aren't Mysterious, We're Broke
    December 22, 2014
    | Donovan X. Ramsey
    The suggestion that "the cheapest generation" are forgoing major financial decisions because of our values is a stretch.
  • Poverty, Incarceration and Criminal Justice Debt
    December 3, 2014
    | Jessica Eaglin and Lauren-Brooke Eisen
    The cost of being in prison is not just the loss of your freedom, but also the debt you accumulate behind bars.
  • The Senators Who Voted Millionaires Over Students
    June 17, 2014
    | Derek Pugh
    These legislators sided last week with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt.


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