Debt Relief

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• SOURCE: Roosevelt Institute
  5/2/2023
  

  Missouri Group's Claim to Standing in SCOTUS Debt Relief Case Based on False Claim of Harm

  In Biden v. Nebraska, the court used the "shadow docket" to accept a case for review without verifying the facts presented in the complaint. As it turns out, the claim by a Missouri-based student loan servicing agency that it would be harmed by debt relief appears to be flatly untrue. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/26/2022
  

  Is There a Biblical Solution to the Modern Problem of Debt?

  by Eva von Dassow

  Many are inspired by Old Testament rules for debt jubilees, but, while the practice has a historical basis, that history shows debt forgiveness was part of an unequal society in which forgiving old debts simply enabled the masses to take on new ones. 

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• 1/9/2021
  

  Debt Jubilees: An Ancient Solution for a Modern Problem

  by Richard Vague

  "Like our ancient forefathers, we need to reset our economy by offering hard-pressed debtors a jubilee now, not in some utopian future."