The article makes a mere side note of the fact they also count revolving debt, i.e. what happens if you pay for groceries on a credit card and then pay off the amount in full every month.
Right. We pay for (nearly) everything using a CC, but we pay it off at the end of the month. We _never_ carry CC debt.
It would be interesting to have this data broken down more.
Same here. More than half our household's income goes on to a credit card, and right off again within a month.
Another one here. We routinely have a $4k monthly credit card statement, but it is paid off religiously every month. I suspect that the data for the story has to have some sort of "balance more than 60 days old" filter applied to it.