Debt articles
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Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes
You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...
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Lima Kokua partners with RIP Medical Debt Relief to clear medical debt across nation
“I was shocked to learn that medical debt was the number one cause of personal bankruptcy. This, along with the desire to help our neighbors across Hawaii, convinced our group that eliminating the medical debt hanging over many of them."
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Property and Debt in Ancient Rome
Traditional societies usually had restrictions to prevent self-support land from being alienated outside of the family or clan. By holding that the essence of private property is its ability to be sold or forfeited irreversibly, Roman law removed the archaic checks to foreclosure that prevented property from being concentrated in the hands of the few. This Roman concept of property is essentially creditor-oriented, and quickly became predatory. More