On 15 November 2012, Strike Debt — an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street Movement — launched a project to buy up debt belonging to ordinary Americans and abolish it so that they never have to pay it back. A year later the group’s raised more than $600,000 and already used two-thirds of that money to clear nearly $15m personal debt caused by medical bills. And now it plans to go after student debt. We spoke to Andrew Ross from Strike Debt to find out more.
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