April 7, 2015
Denise Pitts walked into the pawn shop not far from where she bought her mobile home in Knoxville, Tennessee, and offered up her wedding rings for $100. Her marriage wasn’t over, but her husband was battling cancer and, Pitts said, her mortgage company told her the only way to keep a roof over his head would be to sell everything else.
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Read the full Center for Public Integrity/Seattle Times article by Daniel Wagner and Mike Baker here.
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