The Urban Institute has an interactive map that sh...  ...eractive map that shows how many Americans are in debt county-by-county. But not just "in debt ," because that would be almost all of us. This sh...  ...of us. This shows the percentage of people whose debts have gone...

Andrew Therrien started getting threatening calls...  ...dn't pay up. The problem was that Therrien had no debts . And he was being targeted by more than one colle...  ...en had been caught up in a fraud known as phantom debt , where millions of Americans are hassled to pay b...  ...e concept is centuries old: I...

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The Occupy Wall Street movement is trying a new ta...  ...trying a new tactic to help folks struggling with debt burdens. Banks and other financial traders buy debts from each other for pennies on the dollar, but st...  ...to collect every bit of it plus interest from the debtor...

The highest possible credit score is 850. But appa...  ...bills on time.You might think you have to have no debt to have a really high credit score, but that's no...  ...based on your payment history. If you never have debt , you have no track record for repaying it.In fact...

A lot of cities in the United States are...  ...t of cities in the United States are broke and in debt , but Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has the...  ...a, has the dubious distinction of having the most debt per capita of any U.S. city. The city's...  ...fire-breathing, money-burning d...

There are no hard statistics about the number of s...  ...cs about the number of suicides linked to student debt , but once the question is asked, many debt -ridden former students admit to thoughts of endin...  ...ike there's any way out of his trap: student loan debt cannot be...

Unlike people from other countries, Americans aren't big savers - that much we know. But why exactly? Sheldon Garon, professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton Universit...

The idea might seem laughable now,...  ...what would happen if it paid off its entire debt . The study's conclusion? Paying off the en...  ...The study's conclusion? Paying off the entire US debt could actually harm the global economy!...  ...conomy! If the U.S. paid off its *st...

Properly managing one's finances seems like it sho...  ...plantation owners of his time, lived in perpetual debt . Eager to look the part of a Virginia gentleman,...  ...ured in. Despite these efforts, Jefferson died in debt . Two decades later, his grandson finally paid off...  ...red it a matter of personal ho...