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Public Service Announcement: Payday Loan-Industry Funded, Virginia-based GOPAC May Be Meddling In Your State Government
Payday and Title Lenders are pouring their cash into a Republican PAC staffed with conservative political operatives. Shameful.
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REALITY CHECK: Sen. Ted Cruz’s Defense of Predatory Lenders Charging Texans 492% Interest
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz thinks people who don’t have access to payday loans will end up turning to “‘even worse options.’” The reality is something completely different.
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Report: Congressional “Payday Puppets” Exposed
CFPB payday lending rule in jeopardy – Congress awash in payday cash could vote to gut important new protections.
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Report: Trump’s Payday
Report examines how the payday lending industry courted Trump from candidate to President-elect to President and how they plan to cash in.
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Reality Check: American Banker Publishes Grossly Misleading Op-Ed by Payday Lending Group Honcho
Shaul worked for the House Financial Services Committee before taking a $500,000 a year job shilling for an industry he once helped to oversee.
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Reality Check: Mulvaney Admits He’s Relying on His “Gut” (Rather Than Facts) in Payday Debate
Experts agree the Florida model does not offer strong consumer protections. In Fact, it allows payday lenders to trap consumers in cycles of debt featuring 300-400% interest rates.
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Payday Lenders Cry Crocodile Tears After CFPB Properly Categorizes Suspicious Public Comments Opposing Payday Rule
Review of public comments opposing payday rule also found hundreds of examples using the exact same sentences and paragraphs, word-for-word.
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Don’t Be Fooled: New CEI Payday Report Authored by Disgraced Payday Industry Attorney Caught Manipulating Academic Study
New Competitive Enterprise Institute payday report is flawed, authored by disgraced payday attorney caught manipulating previous study.
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Wells Fargo Stashed $560k in (Campaign) Accounts of Members of Congress Seeking to Cripple Consumer Agency
Wells Fargo gave $560,000 to Congress Members that want to cripple the agency that fined the bank $100 million for secretly opening two million phony accounts.
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Reporter Fails to Note Supposed Payday Success Story Works for a Payday Lender
Newspaper failed to note that a payday lender accounted for 80% of the supposed success story’s business in 2015.