NEW YORK, March 26 (TNSres) -- Bankrate, a provider of financial services, issued the following news release:

Louisiana tops the list with the highest credit card debt burden, while Massachusetts has the lowest. Bankrate's new study analyzed credit card debt and household incomes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine how long it would take to pay off credit card debt in each state, and at what interest expense, following a series of assumptions.