PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, March 8

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, March 8

Forty-Five Percent of Americans Are Making Minimum or No Payments on Their Credit Card Balances, According to the Cambridge Consumer Credit Index

A survey shows nearly half of Americans are making only minimum or no payments on their credit card balances. Of the respondents surveyed by the Cambridge Consumer Credit Index, 37 percent paid less than half but more than minimum payments. That's down by two percent from 2004, but unchanged from 2002 levels. Those paying more than half the balances increased by four percent from 2002 levels.

The survey also asked respondents their reasons for taking on debt, 53 percent said they did so because they are confident of their abilities to repay it. Conversely 47 percent are taking on additional debt because they do not have the money to pay for it.

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As Lifetime Heads To Washington For Its 'Stop Violence Against Women Week,' New Poll Shows That More Than 7 Out of 10 Young Women and Men Ages 16-24 Know Someone in an Abusive Relationship

A new Lifetime Television poll shows that the vast majority of young people -- the first generation to come of age in the ten years since Congress adopted the most far-reaching law, the Violence Against Women Act, to address gender violence in the U.S. -- believe that violence against women remains an extremely serious and common problem. Nearly three quarters believe that violence against women -- defined as domestic violence; acts of sexual assault, such as rape; stalking; and, verbal, physical, and emotional abuse -- receives too little attention. To this generation, violence is no longer a private, personal matter, but rather a critical societal problem which public institutions, like Congress and law enforcement, should take the lead in addressing.

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Stevie Wonder Slated to Release New Album A Time To Love on May 3rd

"So What the Fuss," Stevie Wonder's new single will hit radio stations in early March, the initial release from his much anticipated new album, A Time To Love, which is scheduled to be in stores on May third.

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PRNewswire -- March 8

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