Cornell law professor Robert Hockett joins us to discuss the repercussions of a debt default and the political and legal maneuvers available to avoid it.
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Student Debt Is Crushing Parents, Too
Caitlin Zaloom, associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, joins us to discuss how college-minded parents are taking on enormous debts to fund higher education and why the middle-class is especially crunched.
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The $300 Band-Aid: Surprises In Medical Bills
Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University, joins us to talk about the medical debt that consumes one in five Americans.
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Student Loans: The Debt You Can’t Escape
Reporters Daniel Rivero and Laura Juncadella joins us to talk about how predatory lending practices are keeping some graduates from ever crawling out from under student loans.
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Black And Bankrupt: The Tilted Scales Of Justice
Paul Kiel joins us to talk about how black debtors benefit far less from the bankruptcy system than their white counterparts.
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The Burden Of Debt At HBCUs
Katherine M. Saunders joins us to talk about how students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities are burdened with higher loan debt than students at other schools.
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A Place Called Jubilee
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/8520fb78-7cf5-4f46-b30e-bb5ed85fc6e6/KERA_Think_03-19-15_HR_1.mp3 The cost of living poor can be staggering: Racking up interest on a payday loan, working for minimum wage, paying fees to cash a check, and eating healthy when groceries are hard to find. This hour, as part of KERA’s One Crisis Away: Inside a Neighborhood initiative, we’ll talk to Courtney Collins, who reported the series, and Ben Leal, CEO of Jubilee Park Community Center.
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