[ARCADIA]

The U.S. Census reports that the U.S. has 291 Million legal residents as of 2003.

That means that .57% of Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2003.

Perhaps you should consider multi-person households. I.E. that may have been 1.6 million families that filed for bankruptcy, not 1.6 million individuals.

[Southack]

"Perhaps you should consider multi-person households. I.E. that may have been 1.6 million families that filed for bankruptcy, not 1.6 million individuals."

I've forgotten the precise numbers, but it was something like 38% single women filing for bankruptcy, 36% married couples filing, and the rest filing were single men and corporations (in the tiny minority).

So no, *not* 1.6 million families filed, but 1.6 million total bankruptcy filings altogether in sum.