Debt is often discussed in negative terms, but debt isn’t just good or bad. It falls on a spectrum, and how you manage it ...

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

In fact, household debt hit $18.59 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As people find themselves drowning in debt, they might become desperate ...

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

Debt relief companies also usually require clients to have a minimum amount of debt to qualify for their programs. Some ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

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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