1. (n.) The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete. 1  2. (n.) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.
Almost identical to the size of the average student debt: $27,000. Over 10 years, a typical term for a student loan, the average debt of $28,200 will require a monthly payment of $284 a month at the current federal loan rate of 3.86% According to Experian, the average new car loan today has a monthly payment of $471. Getting into college is hard enough.
According to a separate study from ValuePenguin (which found a similar average credit card debt of $5,700 per household), only 38.1% of all American households carry any credit card debt at all. This implies that the average household that carries a balance owes a whopping $16,048.