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Showing the Latest Payday Lending Results
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Title Lender with Shady Past Drops $1.7 Million on Pro-Industry South Dakota Ballot Measure
Select Management Resources Contributed $1.7 Million to A South Dakota Group That Is Pursuing a Ballot Measure to Insert a Loophole Allowing Unlimited Interest Rates into The State Constitution.
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Reality Check: Professor Falsely Claims Payday Lending Is Not Wildly Profitable
In a Waco Tribune op-ed, Baylor University professor Steven Bradley falsely claimed, ““Critics often contend that payday lending is wildly profitable, but it’s not.”
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Reality Check: Tell Us Again Why Payday Lenders Say They Can’t Afford Reform?
Payday lenders say they can’t afford lower interest rates, caps on the number of loans a borrower takes out, and other reforms.
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Reality Check: Nebraska Payday Lobby Head Falsely Claims Borrowers Already Prove Ability to Pay Back Loans
Payday Lender and President of the Nebraska Financial Services Association Falsely Claimed That a Borrower’s Ability to Repay the Loan Is Already a Key Consideration.
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Reality Check: Advance America VP Says “It’s Impossible to Call Us a Predatory Lender”
Despite what Fulmer would have us believe, former Advance America employees have detailed the predatory tactics of this major payday lender.
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Report: Cheaper By The Dozen
A new report from Allied Progress details how a dozen Members of Congress were showered with campaign contributions by payday lenders within days of taking official actions that benefited the industry.