From More Perfect Union.

A historic number of Americans are behind on their auto loans.

New car payments are costing people as much as rent used to cost — $750 a month on average.

We investigated auto lenders, and found companies making billions even as they set up customers up to fail.

Producer: Sam Black
Videographers: Karen Rodriguez, Colin Bell, Justin Feltman
Editor: Marielena Planas
Supervising Producer: Sam Quigley
Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalya
Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens
Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong
Video Editing Fellow: Daria Nastasia

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