Here's how student debt could be redefined by the nation's first debtors' union. Democracy might just get rescued in the process.

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Astra Taylor, founder of the Debt Collective, told Insider student debt is threatening democracy.
She said that after the Civil War, debt was used to wield power over marginalized communities.
Biden is "playing with fire" not following through on his promise to cancel student debt, she said.
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Debt is all-American, Astra Taylor says. And she doesn't mean that in a good way.Taylor, who founded the Debt Collective, which calls for the