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Data-driven look at America's brutal, racist debt-collection machine
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jsroberts
May 6, 2016, 9:11pm
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New business model: set up co-operative collection agency to forgive debts.
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John Oliver buys and forgives $15M in medical debt, illustrates horrors of America's debt-collectors
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