Note: This program originally aired on June 10, 2024.
In theory, bankruptcy is a system set up to offer a way for people to navigate the debts they cannot pay. In practice, it can take advantage of the poor — and be used as a tool for corporations and the rich to get richer and skirt responsibility.
At least, that’s the argument Melissa Jacoby makes in her book “Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal.”…