The Observer’s Courtney Albon, Harrison Osborne, Sakina Rangwala, Kaley Walker and Kate Willson explore debt through the lens of District residents across an economic spectrum. Through a series of video vignettes, they interview working class immigrants, a college student, a middle-class father and a retired couple on their views on debt. View the first video, by SAKINA RANGWALA, below:

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