How to Use debt burden in a Sentence

debt burden

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  • The high debt burden is a near-term risk that the company faces.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Dividing by the size of the economy puts the debt burden in the context of the US’s resources.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The student-loan debt burden among older adults is part of a larger shift.
    — Next Avenue, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In a way, that means Italy’s government has more income streams to lighten its debt burden of 135% of GDP last year.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Here are six basic yet vital tips to help young adults keep their debt burden down and their net worth climbing.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • In Kenya, blowback over attempts to address the country’s $80 billion debt burden has been much worse.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 2 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, the debt burden, which is rapidly nearing $36 trillion, shows no signs of easing.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • That raised the debt burden on LGFVs, for which the local governments are responsible.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The start of the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts last month was expected to bring bond yields down—and take some pressure off the spiraling U.S. debt burden.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Greece, for example, lost a quarter of its output during a decade-long crisis, and its debt burden soared.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune Europe, 10 June 2024
  • Biden took office vowing to whittle down the debt burden on student and graduates.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Switzerland has been arguably the most successful country in reining in budget deficits and its debt burden.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Despite ample borrowing in response to the pandemic, the debt burden is far lower in the United States.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • The Biden administration’s effort to ease the debt burden for some borrowers with loan forgiveness was blocked by the Supreme Court last month.
    — Alex Tanzi, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • Kenya’s debt burden has forced its leaders to face a series of impossible choices.
    — Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
  • Adding to the debt burden, more than half of those student loan borrowers added a new credit card during the moratorium, while 36% took on an auto loan!
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Far behind mortgages are student loans and car loans, which each total 10% of Americans’ debt burden.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 1 July 2024
  • But the project has also worsened Laos’ debt burden – in turn, creating problems for Beijing, experts say.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The Kaplan Group, a commercial collection agency, released a study in June on the debt burden Americans face.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 1 July 2024
  • So if weather disasters cause college students to carry more debt burden, that can ripple through other parts of their lives for years.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Yet voters fail to recognize that the economy would grow faster and social safety net programs would be funded for longer if the debt burden were reduced, MacGuineas said.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
  • In response, private lenders that hold billions of Zambia’s debt are considering marking down some of their loans to the country, which would further ease its debt burden.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 17 July 2023
  • Clear rules, no gimmicks Forest and Kathleen suggested several ideas that may help ease their debt burden.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Martinez and the school board pushed back against Johnson, saying the extra borrowing would worsen the city's already significant debt burden.
    — Mark Guarino, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Its margins, cash flow and returns on investments had deteriorated over five years and its debt burden had soared.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • More surprising, perhaps, is the medical debt burden on seniors.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
  • That’s even after the Cheng family investment vehicle stepped in to alleviate the builder’s debt burden.
    — Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Britain, for its part, is battling stubbornly high inflation, feeble economic growth and a rising public debt burden, which is the costliest to service among rich economies.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But the new government’s capacity to fix these issues will be severely constrained by a debt burden now bigger than the size of the economy, which means tax hikes or spending cuts are inevitable.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • The debt burden is especially heavy for borrowers who are nonwhite, low-income, and women, a recent study found—and the cost of a college degree could be undoing the American dream.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023

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