Cancel Our Debts, Then Cancel Debt
The story of the pandemic is also a story about debt. One recent survey, conducted in October, found that more than a quarter of respondents had accumulated over $10,000 in new debts during the crisis. One in three had taken out a new credit card. An analysis from Philadelphia found a 70 percent increase from last year in people paying rent on credit and that, by December, rent-burdened households will owe roughly $7.2 billion in back rent, an average individual burden of $5,400. The crisis of American debt predates the pandemic, but it’s clear that nine months of record unemployment and l...
Source: newrepublic.com