money In the UK, 77% of 2017 university grads will never fully repay their student loan debt Andrea James
politics Senate unanimously passes ~$500 billion coronavirus relief bill to add funds for hospitals, testing, small business loans Xeni Jardin
Business Personal data of 8,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan applicants may have been shared with others Xeni Jardin
graeber Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow
trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
scholarship Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow
religion Congregants allegedly pressured to to sell their own blood and donate the funds to their church Seamus Bellamy
glitter elephant brooches Galveston GOP Chairwoman says her text message with N-word was a "typo" Mark Frauenfelder
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
economics A layperson-friendly introduction to MMT, a heterodox school of economics that could finance a Green New Deal Cory Doctorow
class war Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow
Business Whistleblowers out Falwell's Liberty University as a grifty, multibillion-dollar personality cult Cory Doctorow