In this compelling and important book, Chrystin Ondersma makes the case for when abolishing debt is justified--and why. Essential reading.--Patricia A. McCoy, Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor, Boston College Law School Ondersma's visionary human rights framework­--new to the field of debt studies--transcends narrowly technical solutions to the debt crisis, and instead asks what we need to change in order to bring about the world in which we want to live. A highly original and valuable work.--Nathalie Martin, Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law, University of New Mexico A passionate, deeply humane treatise on the maddening inequities of debt in the United States. Chrystin Ondersma understands that debt is not just numbers or interest rates or credit policy; debt is human beings, making unnavigable choices about healthcare, shelter, groceries, their very survival, in a system that has been built to profit from their need and from their pain. A rousing and persuasive argument that the problem of debt in America is a human rights crisis.--Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger