1) Coming out of the recession,
Americans pared back all non-mortgage debt except for student loans, which grew steadily and now represent the largest portion of non-mortgage consumer debt:
After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the
American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and
pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.