by Sarah Poriss | Oct 19, 2020 | Debt, Foreclosure, News
I just left a message for a client, who hasn’t been in good touch with me all summer, urging her to reach back out to me to continue working on her mortgage modification application. I reminded her that, in her specific case, it is a miracle she’s still in her home,... 
by Sarah Poriss | Mar 20, 2020 | News
This social distancing thing is really interesting. We are seeing how being able to come into close contact with each other allows our economy to operate. It shows us how vital it is be able to come near others—total strangers—in order for business to function. We are... 
by Sarah Poriss | Jan 17, 2020 | News
My work has one focus- working with people in debt. With Martin Luther King Jr. day comingup, I was curious to see if he had, or how he had, addressed the issue of debt in his work. Turnsout it was a pivotal concept to him, but not in the literal dollars-and-cents,... 
by Sarah Poriss | Jun 17, 2019 | Debt, Got Debt?, News
June 17, 2019 I posted on Facebook post last month about a proposed bill from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about controlling credit card interest rates. The post generated a lot of views, clicks, and shares along with some comments in response to my... 
by Sarah Poriss | May 28, 2019 | Got Debt?, News
May 28, 2019 I published the first edition of Got Debt, Dispatches From the Front Lines of America’s Debt Crisis in October, 2017. At the time the economy wasn’t treading water, wasn’t booming. It was just, or so it seemed to me, moving along in a hopeful direction... 
by Sarah Poriss | Jun 25, 2018 | News, Stuff you may not know
First semester of law school everyone takes Torts. It’s an interesting course, rarely boring as you’re reading about some pretty gruesome medical malpractices, product liabilities, personal injuries. An important concept in tort law is ‘reasonable foreseeability.’...
