The Index Card

The Index Card

Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated

Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack

Average credit card debt per U.S. household now exceeds $7,000. But it’s actually worse than that. A little more than half of us manage to pay off our credit card bill in full every month. The rest of us? Take the financial Boy Scouts out of the picture, and the remaining households owe an average of more than $15,000.
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