than a form of slow financial suicide. JCeclIaceY No one knows eUctIy en but the Americm addiction to debt is coming to an end. The current situation canno con­ tinue. In the long run it will ruin the nation. Kic your addiction no . The best ay to reduce your deb burden is to increase your income and use part of the in-: crease to reduce your deb For­ get bout debt-reduction loans. You cannot borrow your way out of debt. Such borrowing gives temporary relief but all you have actually .done is put yourself deeper into future debt in order to payoff curre t debt, Remember, the mos busi­ nes -Iike reason to borrow money· when you (2Il use t you "b9rrowed in order to generate more than you bo - rowed. And means borrow- iDs to or to in- .. t ri S 01 (tOY U <>.lly a relatr�ly small number of . in A . ca pay ugh for a person to become flD n . Uy secure. Produ . additio I ineo may mean getting apart _. job, in.YCSltm2 your savings or just selling fried chicken dinners 0 Saturdays. The int i that you must set down and ask yourself "What can I do to bring dditional in­ come in 0 my life?" Decide so thing ad then do it! Well ... Clllclld •• U • AcoordiDg to a )VaD Street Joumal, Black female. orkin cia is catchiD up economically to BJack IDen t a much quicker rate that . e men to . e meG. The report, .. 1987 sta·· revealed the majority of . BI female r en earned 76% of t Black men made, com ed to 49% ill 1960. By COD- trast, lari earned by white n on the ver just 52% of that of their counter- parts. What' more, the ver paycbCcb of B n equaled 94% of their white couaterparts de, while earned oa.ly �thir as m ch. the �dy aka Doted that •