LendingTree’s study involved analyzing around 400,000 credit reports of users in July through September for 2024 and 2025, and researchers found that average total debt grew in every state barring Missouri over this period. The Show-Me State saw average debt fall from $107,045 to $106,691, a decrease of 0.3 percent.

U.S. Treasury yields declined as investors look toward a shortened holiday trading week on top of key debt auctions.

“It’s sort of a head-spinning, 180-degree reversal,” said Chi Chi Wu, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, which advocates for people with low incomes. She called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, the “evil twin” of its predecessor under President Joe Biden.

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The federal government added roughly $1.8 trillion to the now $38 trillion national debt in fiscal year 2025. While net interest on the debt totaled $970 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office,

A donor is paying off the debt of about 82,000 meals for low-income students in Maryland’s largest school system.

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Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Monday that 141,000 Arizonans have had their medical debt erased through her administration's partnership with Undue Medical Debt.

Reading’s new agreement with the Reading Parking Authority aims to lower the authority’s long-term debt while maintaining a steady revenue stream for the city, officials said.

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