Missourians are living with a double whammy of student loans and credit card debt ^13.6%

STLPR - By Holly Edgell - 7/1/2026, 5:02 PM

Negativity Bias 11% - Appeal to Emotion 10.3% - Representativeness Heuristic 9.5%

This article is part of the series, "Costly: Stories about affordability from The Midwest Newsroom." Grace Englehart and her husband, Joshua Clark, thought they would be living in a house by now. They are buying Englehart's childhood home in Blue Springs from her mother at well below market value. Even so, it took several months longer... more