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Tag: debt

color photograph of a protest outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. an Asian person holds up a white paper sign with handwritten text that reads "Fight 4 us joe! cancel student debt under Higher Education Act 1965"
Posted inEducation

BIPOC in debt say student loan repayments starting will force them to make difficult financial decisions

by Alexandra Martinez September 25th, 2023September 25th, 2023

Some say they plan to boycott the payments

Posted inOpinion

Education and affordability for all?

by Chavis Jones September 11th, 2023November 27th, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, three people holding "Patients over profits" signs stand on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair and a patterned shirt looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "medical debt" curving along the loop
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Fighting for the freedom to heal

by Lindsey Muniak May 25th, 2023May 25th, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, three people holding "No Evictions" signs stand on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a Latinx man looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "renters' debt" curving along the loop
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Tenants unions harness collective action to fight rent debt

by Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate May 18th, 2023May 18th, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, four incarcerated men in uniforms stand with their backs to the camera. on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a Latinx man looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "carceral debt" curving along the loop
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Incarceration is financial extraction

by Manuel Galindo May 11th, 2023May 18th, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. black silhouettes line the bottom and hold up picket signs reading "cancel debt now!" and "abolish debt." "debt" in large capital letters centers the collage. the black letters have lines of light yellow cutting horizontally across the bottom half. from the top left, a dotted line swoops diagonally down, with "student loan," "renters'," "medical," and "carceral" curving around the line
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Prism and The Debt Collective partner to change debt narratives from shame to solidarity

by Maddy Clifford May 4th, 2023May 4th, 2023
Students are struggling with school lunch debt
Posted inEducation

Students are struggling with school lunch debt

by Aina Marzia April 18th, 2023April 18th, 2023
color photograph of a high school boy with an undercut fade wearing a white t-shirt and a black backpack received food from a cafeteria counter
Posted inEducation

School lunch debt blames children for systemic failures

by Maurice Weeks February 22nd, 2023February 22nd, 2023

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