Consumers cut credit payments, struggle to pay bills

Consumers are dramatically scaling back how much of their credit card balances they pay each month. Data released this month show that the credit card payment rate — the percentage of outstanding card debt paid — fell by 2.5 percentage points to 16.1%. The drop in November, the latest month available, is among the largest on record, according to CardTrak.com, a credit card research firm. Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Jan. 30, 2009

This is an interesting story, though I do wish USA Today had reached out to a wider set of sources than the ones they did. All the sources work for credit card/financial services companies or a credit card research company. Perhaps someone critical of the credit card industry, would have added more depth to the story.

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