Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

Contents

INTRODUCTION
Debt Rules Everything Around Me
CHAPTER ONE
Credit Scores and Consumer Reporting Agencies: Surveillance and the Vicious Cycle of Debt
CHAPTER TWO
Credit Card and Automobile Debt: On the Road to Nowhere
CHAPTER THREE
Medical Debt: America’s Sick Creation
CHAPTER FOUR
Student Debt: Foreclosing on the Future
CHAPTER FIVE
Housing Debt: How the American Dream Became a Bait-and-Switch Nightmare
CHAPTER SIX
Tax Debt: The Certainty of Debt and Taxes
CHAPTER SEVEN
Fringe Finance Transaction Products and Services: Making Bank on the Unbanked
CHAPTER EIGHT
Fringe Finance Credit Products and Services: Credit for the Precariat
CHAPTER NINE
Debt Collection: Don’t Feed the Vultures
CHAPTER TEN
Bankruptcy: It’s Better Than Nothing
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Strategies for Survival: Living on the Margins of the Debt System
CHAPTER TWELVE
Municipal and State Debt: Crushing Debt from Above
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
National Debt: The Politics of Scarcity and Control
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Climate Debt: An Overdue Balance Balance End of year statement of a company’s assets (what the company possesses) and liabilities (what it owes). In other words, the assets provide information about how the funds collected by the company have been used; and the liabilities, about the origins of those funds.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Prospects for Change: Join the Resistance!
GLOSSARY

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