Learn the facts about cold sores so you can face every cold sore with confidenceâfrom the first tingle until itâs bye-bye blister. 1  Most nonprescription treatments work the same way. 2  Cold sores are only contagious when you can see a blister. 3  The cold sore virus (HSV-1) cannot spread beyond the lip area.
It came up with a total debt of $2 trillion for all states. California still owes the most under the alternative computation, but the state's total debt drops significantly, to $307 billion. With the Pew numbers, New Jersey follows with $183 billion of debt and Illinois is next at $150 billion.
The Urban Institute. Debt is distributed quite unevenly across the United States, as the map above from the Urban Institute shows. In 2013, average total debt ranged from a high of nearly $100,000 in San Jose, California, the heart of Silicon Valley ($97,150), to less than $25,000 in McAllen, Texas. The report notes that the top 20 percent of tracts account for 42 percent of all debt holdings in America.