Tag: debt collectors
SCOTUS: Okay for debt collectors to hound people, even after statute...
“The result is that debt buyers have won ‘billions of dollars in default judgments’ simply by filing suit and betting that consumers will lack the resources to respond.”
Rampaging Debt Collectors are Committing Highway Robbery
Every year, the debt collection firms routinely abuse the law and overload our courts by rotely filing hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against debtors.
Debt Collectors or Pick Pockets?
Predatory collection agencies are filing bogus lawsuits against hard-hit consumers. This is no minor scam — a third of all adults in the United States are under pursuit by debt collectors.
Debt Buyers Bury Hard-Hit Consumers in Lies
Millions of Americans have been hit hard and now find themselves swimming in consumer debt. A new scam has 1 in 7 struggling adults in the U.S. under pursuit by debt collectors. These predator corporations are ending any hope of recovery.
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Divided we fail: A way forward for a divided progressive left?
Those that attempt to divide the progressive left into opposing camps at war with each other are almost as big a threat to the movement as the far right.
Naomi Klein: The US is in the midst of a ‘shock-and-awe judicial coup’
"The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over," warned the author of "The Shock Doctrine."
4 myths about raising the minimum wage
We’re the richest country in the world, home to the richest people on the planet. We can, and we must, treat our workers with the dignity and respect they deserve.
56% of Muslim Americans support women’s right to choose, and more Muslim-majority nations offer...
The American conviction that all Muslims are fundamentalists has led to a misunderstanding of Muslim societies.
NATO and a war foretold
While the world determines how to hold Russia accountable for the horrors it is committing in Ukraine, the members of NATO should do some honest self-reflection.