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  • The color of debt: How collection suits squeeze black neighborhoods

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    The color of debt: How collection suits squeeze black neighborhoods

    By Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman
    ProPublica
    On a recent afternoon, the new African-American mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Jennings, population 15,000, looked at a computer list of every debt collection lawsuit against a resident of her city – at least 4,500 in just five years. She saw the names of many of her neighbors. Then she saw her own name.

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