The graph represents how the debt-to-income ratio is getting farther and farther apart for higher and lower income earners. As the lower income households rack up more debt, they borrow money from those with higher income, and the lines diverge farther due to the interest. As the blue line creeps over a ratio of 100%, the average household is simply going deeper and deeper into debt.
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