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Hero or Coward: Could Skipping My Student Loan Payments Start a Revolution?

A college professor is calling for a massive student-debt strike next year with only one necessity: that as many debtors as possible refuse to pay.

Yessenia Funes

When Energy Bills Skyrocketed, These Neighbors Banded Together to Keep the Lights On鈥擜nd Won

For nearly 20 years, utility company Central Hudson has operated more or less unchallenged鈥攗ntil Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson came along.

Laura Gottesdiener

Infographic: The Real Reason You Have So Much Debt (It鈥檚 Not Crazy Spending)

$11.85 trillion in household debt has more to do with stagnant wages (and predatory banks) than shopping sprees .

Heidi Bruce & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz

Infographic: A History of Debt Forgiveness and Relief

As long as there has been lending, there have been times when the people鈥檚 debt becomes a crisis. Here鈥檚 a look at the policy solutions governments have been using, starting in ancient Sumer.

Jennifer Luxton & Lindsey Weedston

Will Government Make Good on Its Promise to Forgive Student Debt?

Up to a quarter of the nation鈥檚 workers have spent 10 years working in public service on a promise of student loan forgiveness.

Ava Kofman

I Owed My Parents Everything鈥擝ut My Son Will Owe Me Nothing

Why family debts shouldn鈥檛 be about money or expectations, but about love.

Shin Yu Pai

We Asked Our Favorite Illustrators What Debt Means to Them

Here's what they gave us, from comics to collage.

Goodbye McMansion, Hello Simple Life: What I Learned From Thoreau

The philosopher鈥檚 lessons include how to let go and find happiness鈥攅ven after crippling debt and a heartbreaking divorce.

Kaci Yoh

For These Borrowers and Lenders, Debt Is a Relationship Based on Love

There could be a different financial system, one where debt allows us to honor our freedom rather than our servitude.

Nathan Schneider

Own a Home in Just Four Years? This Co-Op Program Keeps Workers in the Neighborhood

Nearly half of Evergreen鈥檚 worker-owners have purchased homes through the program.

Yessenia Funes

The Interest-Free Lending Circles That Help Friends and Families Do DIY Loans

Who needs banks when you have communities? And organizations like Mission Asset Fund have even figured out how to use the system to raise credit scores.

Liz Pleasant

How Creative Finance Launched Worker-Owned Co-ops In Post-Sandy New York

Half of small businesses don鈥檛 make it past the first five years, and owners lose everything trying to pay off the loans. The Working World lets co-ops stabilize before repayment even begins.

Araz Hachadourian