On this episode of the Ballard Spahr Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, we examine consumer debt and bankruptcy through the lens of Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (University of California Press, 2025), by Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, and Deborah Thorne.

Based on decades of research from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, the nation’s most comprehensive study of bankruptcy filers, Debt’s Grip goes beyond aggregate data to document the lived experience of financial distress.… Continue Reading