KALW 91.7 FM, March 25, 2013, Monday

KALW 91.7 FM

March 25, 2013, Monday

KALW 91.7 FM (full interview)

Why are Americans in so much debt?

On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about the strike debt campaign, which came from a coalition of Occupy groups looking to build popular resistance to all forms of debt. One in seven Americans is being pursued by a debt collector. Medical bills cause 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies.

Louis Hyman, assistant professor in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, author of Borrow: The American Way of Debt.