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While the annual percentage rates for credit cards have ticked lower, unpaid balances have increased.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
Thousands of families now risk calls from debt collectors — but officials say their hands were tied: unpaid balances were straining the district’s food service fund, which is federally required to be self-sustaining.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2025
Analysts from LendingTree calculated that the national average card debt among people carrying unpaid balances was $6,569.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2022
But new research suggests that colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the enrollment decline, while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022
Where there is not a vigorous rivalship, not only tolerated, but encouraged, it is impossible ever to redeem the manufacturers from the servitude induced by those unpaid balances.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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