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Author: Ann Larson

Ann Larson is a writer and activist focused on economic justice. Her writing on education, debt, and low-wage work has appeared in the New Republic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She is co-author of Can't Pay Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition and has given many invited talks on debtor activism, including at Brooklyn College, Western University, UCLA, and Harvard Law School.

Co-published with Fast CompanyCompanies like PadSplit offer affordable rooms in shared houses, but they often come with major issues.

Co-published with JacobinThe supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.

Co-published with The NationThe lesson from the Corinthian debt strikers: Should President Biden cancel student loan debt, it should be done without making debtors jump through hoops.

Co-published with The Nation. Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, but it’s not a turning point for labor power.

Co-published with SlateAt some point, I realized the goal was to make my job kill me slower.

Co-published with The New RepublicOn working amid paranoid customers, hungry shoplifters, sick co-workers, and people who just need a bathroom.

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