Natalie Campisi is a senior journalist who covers personal finance, balancing timely news with in-depth enterprise reporting. Her mission is to make complex financial issues clear and accessible for ...

If you've been watching your credit card balance creep higher each month, you're certainly not alone. Americans are now carrying over $1.23 trillion in credit card debt, and with average credit card ...

Many Americans—about half—carry credit card debt from month to month, and about 53 percent of them have been in debt for more than a year, according to a survey by Bankrate.com. Households with credit ...

There's a specific kind of stress that comes with credit card debt: the kind that creeps in at the checkout counter and then shows up in your mail or inbox when the credit card bills roll in. You tell ...