Credit can be a lifeline in tough times, but it can also be quietly destructive. As I spoke with borrowers, financial experts, and scholars, it became clear that behind our fantastic plastic lies a powerful, deregulated, and exploitative system that traps many in a debt spiral.
These are the stories of that system, the people…
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