If you're struggling with overwhelming debts and bills, it can be difficult to get your finances back on track on your own. That's where debt counseling services and credit counselors can provide ...
LSS Financial Counseling, a service of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, has seen a 17.51% increase over the past year in ...
Many Americans—about half—carry credit card debt from month to month, and about 53 percent of them have been in debt for more than a year, according to a survey by Bankrate.com. Households with credit ...
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 ...
Credit card debt this year is at an all-time high, and more and more cash-strapped consumers add to those numbers every month. If you are getting deeper and deeper in debt on your credit cards, you ...
Managing debt can be tough when you're juggling multiple credit card payments, hefty interest charges and other types of ...
Between today's record-high credit card rates, the compounding nature of credit card interest and the elevated borrowing costs on other types of loans, lots of Americans are dealing with debt-related ...
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 ...
We have $15,000 in credit card debt. My husband works very hard, but only makes about $25,000 a year. We’re also living in a very old trailer right now, and I stay at home with our newborn. My dad ...
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Got debt? You're not alone. Business Insider estimated the average debt for each North Carolina resident last year. was $96,000+. This number includes mortgages, car loans, student ...