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Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Bankruptcy and the Class and Wealth Issues

I think I was drawn to bankruptcy law in part because of my upbringing and found in that class as well as in some of the work that I did as a college student. The people who gamble and bet wrong when they open a small business on the people who, you know, there's competition in the marketplace and that means some people lose. Bankruptcy is really the legal answer to how we help those things get a fresh start and come back into the economy in a productive way. So I do think I carry those stories forward with me.

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