clownboy
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A quick google search pulled up
American Household Credit Card Debt Statistics through 2012
March 31, 2010 March 31, 2012*
Total revolving debt $842.6 billion $803.6 billion
Number of U.S. households 116,716,292 118,666,137
Average credit card debt per household $7,219 $6,772
% of households with a credit card balance 43.2% 46.7%
Average credit card debt per indebted household $16,383 $14,517
That shows improvement from 2010 to 2012
Unemployed people lose their access to credit.