How to Use debt burden in a Sentence

debt burden

noun

• 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
• 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
• That raised the debt burden on LGFVs, for which the local governments are responsible.
  — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 16 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No generation is free from the debt burden, but the likelihood of carrying a credit card balance does rise with age before dropping with the boomer generation.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The rating agency also cited America's growing debt burden at the state and federal levels.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Aug. 2023
• Musk, who bought Twitter last year for $44 billion, emphasized that Twitter’s debt burden after the deal is quite high and the cost of servicing the debt is around $1.5 billion annually, about equivalent to its current cash burn rate.
  — Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• The measures come after France received a warning about its high debt burden from the International Monetary Fund, which called for more effort to get budget deficits under control.
  — Tara Patel, Fortune, 26 May 2024
• The rising debt tide may pose a political challenge for President Biden, who has repeatedly touted the decline in the deficit since Donald Trump left office but still faces a large debt burden that is expected to grow.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Quite likely, the debt burden is contributing to dissatisfaction among voters, who give the Biden administration poor marks for the economy.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Additionally, the debt burden rises in tandem with interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has been raising over the past year in its effort to control inflation.
  — Bytristan Bove, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• Republicans cited that mounting debt burden as a reason to refuse to raise the limit, risking default and financial crisis, unless Mr. Biden agreed to measures to reduce future deficits.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• African countries’ sovereign debt burden is no mere accounting problem.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024