Economic security

Report: Law Firm Discovers Interesting Fact About Most Bankrupt Places in America

A credit repair law firm is used to seeing people with financial struggles, and now they’ve put together an interactive report so that everyone else can, too.

Lexington Law, a firm that bills itself as the leading credit repair firm, has compiled an interactive project that reveals the per capita rate of bankruptcy in every American county and state. The firm found that while some counties and states mired in bankruptcies also had high poverty rates, not every county or state did.