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Bringing Relevance Back To Consumer Bankruptcy, Nathalie Martin
Bringing Relevance Back To Consumer Bankruptcy, Nathalie Martin
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The Seventeenth Annual Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal Symposium
This Paper presumes that readers want to make bankruptcy more useful for consumers and for society as a whole. If this is true, we need to ask two questions: first, what do individual consumers hope to get out of the system, and second, what does society hope to get out of the system?
Part I of this Paper discusses the increase in debt over the last two decades, the growing wage and income gap, growing debt inequality and race, and the fall of the CFPB, all justifications for using the bankruptcy system …