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100% Chapter 13 Plans are still a pretty good option: https://bit.ly/2RDpgeX

Two little-discussed anti-foreclosure laws deserve much credit for slowing the initial devastation and for helping to stabilize the housing market

US inequality has become so vast that taxes and transfers don't even come close to narrowing the gap.

After 2 years, about 65 percent of those with a bankruptcy on their record restore their credit scores to levels eligible for loans

Since 1980, poor people’s income has grown half as quickly as that of the wealthy, but only when including welfare benefits

DeVos-led Ed. Dept. argues that loan servicers should be protected from state rules that are tougher than federal law:

The Payday Lending Rule would require payday loan lenders to take steps to make sure that people can afford to repay their loans.

The impact of abusive collection practices is particularly harmful to Black and Latino communities, which face longstanding racial and ethnic gaps in poverty and wealth.

Freed up from their student loan obligations, millennials would be able to afford to make other financial decisions that would help buoy the economy, like buying a home or starting a new business.

The total growth was due to increases in mortgage debt, by 1.6%, student debt at 1.5%, auto debt at 0.7% and credit card debt at 3.2%.

It is time for the non-profit colleges to own up to the fact that their students are defaulting at a rate never before seen for any lending instrument in this nation’s history.

Families on the high end of the income spectrum earn 11 times more than families on the low end

There is a lot that can be done about taxes in the Bankruptcy Court