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Now, here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news.

All right, student loan payments are causing credit score pain for millions of people.

Now, this is a sensitive issue for me because I know what it is to have a bad credit

score because I spent the early part of my adulthood living with a bad credit score.

And when I left corporate law and I opened up my own practice, my key areas of focus were suing bad police because who doesn't like suing bad police officers?

It's a good type of lawsuit to file.

And the way the law is set up, it worked really well and allowed me to fund other areas of my practice.

But in addition to suing bad police officers for being bad to people in my community, I also spend a lot of time in my

practice helping poor people defend themselves against debt collectors and home foreclosures.

And after I started my legal career in wealthy white shoe law firms, which are very hoity-to-ty,

where my primary job was to figure out how to make wealthy people even wealthier, it was a

complete turnaround. I grew up poor, as we've discussed before, and I grew up on welfare,

complete with the food stamps that looked like monopoly money, not these cute little EBT

cars y'all have now. So I know how to speak fluent poverty, and I knew how to speak fluent

poverty as my primary language when I went to work in these very hoitit-to-to-and-snooty law firms. And I knew how to speak fluent poverty as my primary language when I went to work in these very

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