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Telephone customer service has become so automated that it can be extremely frustrating to resolve a problem. When it comes to bill collectors, the stakes are high. If the matter isn’t resolved, it can ruin your credit. In this video, Ana, a Cuban immigrant to Miami in the 1970s, hit a wall of silence after…

Numerous articles have appeared here in recent months about the ways that racial disparities are infused into our financial and economic systems. Two barriers to Latinx and Black workers’ ability to save, for example, are less health insurance coverage and more burdensome student loan payments than White workers have. Or consider the different long-term housing…