This week’s Business page in The American is dominated by a lengthy excerpt from ProPublica’s landmark study on racial disparities in debt collection, “The Color of Debt.” Reporters for the public ...

The county’s contribution to its pension fund has grown so big that it created a $200 million cash flow deficit earlier this ...

Why does your money lose value year after year? The debt-based monetary system is the answer. By creating money through loans ...

A new report on Jefferson County's fines and fees system argues that U.S. courts' reliance on monetary sanctions is ...

Denise Zencka, a mother of three in Indiana, had to file for bankruptcy because she couldn’t afford to repay her bills for treatment for thyroid cancer. And because she was unable to work, she had to ...

In October, President Joe Biden announced an additional tranche of student loan forgiveness, bringing the total approved debt cancellation by his administration to $127 billion. Some might say that ...

Iowa lawmakers want to overhaul the state's court debt system after the Iowa Judicial Branch misallocated $27.5 million over five years after a series of law changes. The Iowa Senate voted unanimously ...

Speakera at the 9th Annual Meeting on the 2nd global debt initiative have called for a reform of the international financial system to prioritise the needs of African nations and their citizens ...