Americans continue to struggle under the weight of crushing debt. Consumers owed an average of $104,755 as of mid-2025 — down ...

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Government credit card relief options may be scarce, but there are several other paths to reduce what you owe.

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CHARLOTTE — Some families owe more money now than even from a few months ago. According to recent Federal Reserve numbers, this year household debt went up $16 billion from the first quarter to the ...

Credit card debt is a growing problem for many Americans. Credit card balances increased by $27 billion in the second quarter of 2024 and are up almost 6% compared to a year ago. If you're one of the ...

Edidiong Obot is working on her second master’s degree at Georgetown University. Like many students, she has faced student loans and credit card debt. “It was somewhere between $30-50,000 in debt and ...

Americans now owe nearly $5 trillion in non-housing debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a sum that’s increased more than 60% over the past decade. As our debt has grown, so has ...

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