Confessions of a Former Teen Debt Collector

With payday lending becoming a desperate lifeline of the pandemic, I’m forced to reckon with my past life working in a predatory system

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It was an accident, becoming a teenage debt collector. “Listen,” a friend told me. “There’s this job I heard about — it’s at a law firm, you’ll make bank.” It was…