As the credit card bills pile up and the variable interest rates on your cards climb higher, it's easy to become trapped in a cycle of debt that you can't easily overcome. And, when you add the ...

When debt piles up, it can start to feel like there's no way out. After all, credit card minimum payments barely chip away at your balances, the interest charges keep climbing, and if you're behind on ...

The math is brutal. At an average interest rate of 22%, all it takes is a revolving credit card balance of a few thousand dollars to find yourself in serious trouble, especially as the interest ...

Debt collectors have limits, but ignoring them isn't a solid strategy. Here's what happens when debt goes unpaid.

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A Pasadena-based financial institution will be paying off the smaller, consumer debts of families in Altadena and the ...

An ongoing effort to wipe out up to $700 million in medical debt for Wayne County residents has made a discovery some may find surprising. Those most in need of medical debt relief were not the ...

The initiative, part of Mayor Aftab Pureval's Financial Freedom Blueprint, aimed to address the city's wealth gap by eliminating medical debt. The city allocated $1.45 million to the program, which ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: The headquarters of the Department of Education are shown March 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Department of Education announced yesterday that it will reduce its staff by ...