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To: MythMan who wrote (14965)	3/18/1998 11:17:00 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

>>Carol Kurth, education coordinator for Credit Counseling Centers in Farmington Hills, Mich., thinks families are not more debt free but simply trading in one type of debt for another. For example, many more are taking out home equity loans, sometimes for 125% of the house's value, to pay of their credit cards. "People are not getting rid of debt, they're changing how they're paying for it," she said. << I heard that crud on NPR today. The report is about as good as the one a few weeks back on the budget surplus. Bogus as ...