Nearly 1 in 10 Americans has significant medical debt, according to an analysis of the numbers by Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker. KFF re...

The 77 percent majority of American households are in debt, according to the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances. The ac...

The most comprehensive look at the characteristics of Americans with medical debt is available from the Census Bureau's Survey of Income...

American households owed a median of $64,800 in 2019, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. This means half of...

Student loans are a ball and chain around the necks of millions of Americans. It didn't used to be this way. The first time the Federal ...

There's more to fear than coronavirus. There's bankruptcy to fear as well, bankruptcy caused by mounting medical bills for treating ...

Forty-one percent of American households say they would have trouble paying an unexpected $400 expense, according to the Federal Reserve Boa...

Rural counties have been losing population in recent years and urban counties have been growing. One factor behind rural population loss is ...

If student debt had not increased between 2005 and 2014—both in prevalence and in the amount owed—there would be 400,000 additional homeowne...

How many Americans carry a credit card balance, and how much do they owe? The answers can be found in a study by economist Joanna Stavins of...

More than three out of four American households (77 percent) are in debt, according to the Federal Reserve Board's 2016 Survey of Consum...

The percentage of households with student loan debt has more than doubled in the past 24 years, according to an Employee Benefit Research In...

For today's young adults, getting a college degree means going into debt, according to the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Househo...

No generation is deeper in debt than Generation X. In part, that's because they are in the lifestage (middle age) when debt peaks. But i...

Medical debt looms over millions. Fully 21 percent of Americans aged 18 or older had unpaid, past-due medical bills in 2016, according to a ...

Overall, 77 percent of American households were in debt in 2016—the same percentage as in 2007, according to the Federal Reserve Board's...

Debt is a growing burden for Boomers nearing retirement. That's the prognosis of a National Bureau of Economic Research study, which exa...

Many Millennials would have a lot of trouble paying an unexpected bill of $1,000, according to a GenForward Survey, which defines Millennial...

The median net worth of the average household was $80,039 in 2013, according to a recently released report from the Census Bureau's 2014...

Among adults under age 65, a substantial 24 percent had past-due medical debt in 2015, according to a study by the Urban Institute. The figu...