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20+ Illuminating Credit Card Debt Statistics for 2023

Many or all of the products featured here are from our partners who compensate us. This may influence which products we write about and where and how the product appears on a page. However, this does not influence our evaluations. The average household credit card debt in America is $9,654, and the states with the... Read More

| February 22, 2023

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