Liptak Law Offices

01/27/2022

02/20/2021

The president’s resistance to canceling $50,000 in student debt is not about law or policy but about craven, misguided politics.

01/30/2021

Turns out saddling teenagers with mortgage-like debt under the guise of increasing “access” to college education is a bad idea

01/26/2021

Nine months. That's how long it took the world's top 1,000 billionaires to recoup their fortunes after the coronavirus pandemic hit.

01/25/2021

Filmmaker and organizer Astra Taylor makes the case for economic disobedience in an extended conversation with Jeremy Scahill on Intercepted.

01/25/2021

Activists and academics discuss the crisis of higher education and the growing movement to cancel student debt and make college free for all.

11/25/2020

The argument that we shouldn’t cancel student debt because it’s unfair to those who have paid off their loans doesn’t hold up. Don’t overthink it: we should cancel all student debt and make public universities, community colleges, and vocation schools tuition-free.

11/24/2020

Across the country, tenants are finding that the eviction moratorium is riddled with loopholes and ineffectively enforced.

07/10/2020

In economic news, another 1.3 million people have filed for unemployment aid, bringing the total to 48 million over the past 16 weeks. This comes as Republican lawmakers are refusing to extend a program that has given unemployed workers an extra $600 in weekly jobless benefits. The program ends late...

07/09/2020

"The richest 1% is responsible for 70% of all unpaid taxes... Congress is leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes uncollected from the wealthy."

07/04/2020

Corporate boards are handing out millions to top executives before their companies seek bankruptcy protection, and courts can’t do much about it.

05/25/2020

Opponents of Medicare for All have cast it as a political nonstarter since it would “force people off their health insurance.” Now, as millions of laid-off workers lose their employer-provided insurance, the cynicism of that claim is being laid bare.