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		<title>Critics Doubt Latest Jobs Bill Will Really Produce Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt. 

Republicans scoff at the "Jobs for Main Street Act" title that House Democrats put on their $174 billion package last 
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		<title>How Americans Got into a Credit-Card Mess</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans have a long, sordid history with borrowed money. In Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America, Charles Geisst, a professor of finance at Manhattan College, takes us through the centuries to explain how we wound up at our most recent — and spectacular — credit bubble. TIME's Barbara Kiviat spoke with him

You write that one of the major myths about American society is that we 
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		<title>The American people owe approximately $6.7 Trillion Dollars in household debt</title>
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		<title>The first payment-based debt for the average American gets incurred while still in high school</title>
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		<title>The average american has between $30,000 and $40,000 in outstanding credit card debt. How about you?</title>
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		<title>The average American has been $35k to $45k in credit card debt, how about you?</title>
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