Fed Survey Finds US Families Richer but More Strained by Debt

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The typical American family earned more and owned more in 2025 than it did three years earlier — and yet, a growing number of households were buckling under the weight of their own debt. That's the headline from the Fed Consumer Finances Survey released on Friday, October 9, 2026, a sweeping snapshot of how the … Read more