Consumer Debt
In the years following the Great Recession, consumer debt has steadily risen. Even as the economy has recovered a little bit here and there, our household debt has a way to go in terms of catching up. We’ve lost a job and it’s still been hard to find a new one. We have medical bills that are impossible to pay, credit card debt that continues to mount, or our homes are about to go into foreclosure. With family members struggling just as equally, it can seem like there’s nowhere else to turn. However, we do have options. Bankruptcy may be one of them. Learn more about consumer debt and bankruptcy from the National Bankruptcy Forum.
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Earlier this year, household debt balances in America rose to $12.73 trillion, the highest in our history. In fact, 73% of us die in debt. With this much debt, it’s hard for many people to reach long-term goals such as retirement savings, or shorter-term goals such as paying for a wedding. Many of us just wing…
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Posted by: Erik Clark
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Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in Georgia: What You Need to Know
Georgia, the largest state east of the Mississippi river, is famous as the nation’s foremost producer of peaches, pecans and peanuts. It was one of our original colonies, and back in 1776 its population was 40,000 —compared to today’s population of 10,310,371, making it the eighth-most populous state in the nation. The Atlanta metropolitan area is the ninth-largest…
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Corinthian Colleges Students Eligible for Loan Discharge
Get out of student loan debt free? If you’re a former student of Corinthian Colleges, you might. The for-profit Corinthian Colleges, which stopped operating in 2015 and displaced more than 10,000 California students, was under fire by the U.S. Department of Education after it found the schools made false claims about their post-graduation employment rates…
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10 Statistics about US Medical Debt that Will Shock You
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