{"id":20004,"date":"2026-08-20T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/us-personal-bankruptcies-rise-nearly-50-percent-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:15:14","slug":"us-personal-bankruptcies-rise-nearly-50-percent-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/us-personal-bankruptcies-rise-nearly-50-percent-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. personal bankruptcies rise by nearly 50% to 500,000 in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research by a U.S. think tank shows that personal bankruptcies in the United States have increased significantly, with the number of filings reaching half a million in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Conversition think tank, the number of Americans applying to declare personal bankruptcy is on an upward trend. The report adds that the figure recorded in 2025 is nearly 50% higher than in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in personal bankruptcies has been reported at a time when figures have already shown an increase in the number of bankrupt companies and institutions in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Under the U.S. legal system, personal bankruptcy is a process people turn to for legal protection when they are unable to pay their debts, and it is also commonly used as an indicator of economic pressure on households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. personal bankruptcies have surged nearly 50% since 2022, reaching 500,000 filings in 2025, according to a think tank report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}