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- The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers found debt payments consume recent U.S. household income gains.
- One-earner households allocate 52 cents of each additional income dollar to higher debt payments.
- Two-earner households direct the entire recent real income gain and beyond toward debt payments.
- Inflation-adjusted debt payments rose nearly 15% over three years and were about eight times faster than household income growth.
