How Declaring Bankruptcy Drives African Americans Into Debt

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 3, 2017

ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel chats with us about his latest story, "How the Bankruptcy System is Failing Black Americans." The piece looks at why black Americans are more likely to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy rather than Chapter 7, and how that system may only cause them to fall further into debt.

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