Some thought it was the company's fault for getting into debt, but most were concerned about the effect on the employees.

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While you want to express yourself, getting into debt over a gift will likely cause relationship tension in the long term.

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Then they get into that cycle of getting into debt, the calls start coming in, and then eventually, where does all the money go?

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Fears about not having the right brand of trainers or electronic gadgets for children meant that parents in the UK, particularly those on low incomes, felt they had to buy these goods, even if it meant getting into debt.

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The countries that export cotton are getting less revenue and getting deeper into debt and farmers individually can't afford basic things like health care and even food in some cases.

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It was meant to protect people from deceptive credit card practices and to help keep college students from getting themselves into too much debt.

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The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act was passed in 2009 to protect consumers, especially college students, from getting into serious financial trouble by accumulating credit card debt they could not afford to pay.

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Italy and Spain could carry on paying these high rates on new debt for quite a while without getting into serious trouble.

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