Credit counselors reported a significant surge in demand for financial counseling services so far this year, warning that the trend signals an increase in financial distress among U.S. consumers.

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Following a divorce, a series of moves to pick up acting work, and a string of temporary jobs that dried up when the economy soured in 2001, Alyssa Polacsek owed $20,000 to two credit-card companies.