A graduate from City College's Class of 2021 displays their tassel. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission.

Phone calls and letters are still going strong in debt collections, but outreach via digital channels such as text and emails is gradually creeping up. So is the use of artificial intelligence and ...

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If your debt is sent to collections you'll need to take immediate steps to avoid the financial impacts. / Credit: Siriporn Kaenseeya / EyeEm If you have debts in collection, you're not alone. In ...

A single ambulance ride. That's all it might take for a Michigan family to fall into debt they can't shake — thousands of dollars from one night in the emergency room, owed to a hospital they thought ...

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Debt collection lawsuits are “overwhelming” Michigan’s district court system, often resulting in a process that pits well-heeled creditors and debt buyers against low- and moderate-income residents, ...

Ben Franklin famously wrote: "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.” If Franklin were writing today, one more certainty would be added to his list of the inevitable — debt. In ...

Squeezed by the recessionary COVID-19-era economy and the rising prices of everyday goods, some consumers are increasingly turning to lines of credit to make ends meet. According to a September 2021 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says negotiators went back to the bargaining table in an effort to pass a 2026 budget. A group of aldermen and women say it’s too late, however. City ...

The day Teresa Beatty learned she owed the state more than $83,600, she said, she had to ask what for. That’s when Beatty, who reportedly spent about two years in prison roughly 20 years before she ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. After a pandemic-related pause of more than five years, the U.S. Department of Education has resumed debt collections ...