My coauthors and I have been doing research on families in bankruptcy for more than twenty years. I never really wanted a role in politics, but like many things in life, when the bankruptcy bill came thundering down the tracks, there wasn’t really much choice. Supporters of the bankruptcy bill railed on about irresponsibility and fraud. Our research was one of the few pieces of hard data about what was going on. It offered a very different picture of families in desperate financial trouble.
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