debt
Biden order hailed as step toward total student loan debt cancellation
August 25, 2022GOP trashes relief for 43 million working people, but has no problem with more tax cuts for the rich.
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Why did Nancy Pelosi appeal to white supremacy to reject student loan forgiveness?
July 29, 2021To frame her opposition to student loan forgiveness as unfair to white people who pay taxes is standard talk right out of the playbook of Trump, Bush, and Reagan.
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Can’t pay, won’t pay: Building a debtor’s union in D.C.
November 23, 2020People's World interviews Wes Vanderburgh, an organizer from the newly established D.C. Chapter of the Debt Collective.
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Argentina quiere decir «nunca más» a la deuda externa
February 2, 2020No se puede caminar mientras se arrastra un fardo de más de 280 000 millones de dólares adeudados a tenedores privados y al Fondo Monetario Internacional.
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Puerto Rico debt deal: Bondholders get paid, future of public services uncertain
February 5, 2019A federal bankruptcy judge approved a major debt restructuring plan for Puerto Rico on Monday in the first deal of its kind for the U.S. territory since the island’s government declared nearly four years ago that...
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