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Consumer Debt $1,320 Per Family Here
To what extent are Rappahannock County residents making use of the installment iredit available to them? How much does the average local family owe on purchases of iars, dishwashers, clothes dryers, lii-fi sets, furniture and other irticles? More than it did a year ago, recording to the latest figures, rhat has been the normal pattern. However, the increase in the debt oad was less than in most other /ears. A principal reason is that, ocally and in most other parts of ;he country, consumers appear to lave been budgeting themselves
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