A Louisiana university helps solve the national shortage of black doctors, Uber drivers are left with car payments after a raise in fees, and Mother Jones explores whether mammograms do more harm than good.
For their new book, H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin followed the lives of America鈥檚 poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.
Bankruptcy is supposed to give debtors a fresh start鈥攗nless they鈥檙e struggling with student loans. But a little-known provision is helping these borrowers take their creditors to court.
A complex, for-profit system is behind these three-digit scores that affect your ability to borrow, rent, and work. Here's how regulators are putting credit score companies on notice.
As long as there has been lending, there have been times when the people鈥檚 debt becomes a crisis. Here鈥檚 a look at the policy solutions governments have been using, starting in ancient Sumer.
Let鈥檚 remove the shame from the conversation and help the next generation avoid the debilitating amounts of debt that keep us from buying houses or taking vacations.
After graduating from Everest College with a bad education and no job prospects in sight, I refused to pay my student loans. Now I鈥檓 helping lead the first student-debt strike in America.
Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico spent decades hounding debtors to pay their bills鈥攗ntil an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street inspired them to find a way to pay struggling people's debts.
Call it populism versus corporatism or democracy versus corporate rule. Either way, it is a far more meaningful political division than two political parties debating big government versus small.
The Comedy Central show allows millennials of a specific demographic鈥攁nd even those outside of it鈥攖o laugh at the situation the 1 percent has handed them.