payday lending
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Voters Prefer Payday Lending Protection, Regulators Seek Less
A bold effort to benefit business and commerce focuses on growing customers while taking the teeth out of consumer protection…
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Federal Proposals Would Strip Away Payday Loan Rate Caps in 16 States and D.C.
On Main Street America, millions of people know that the cost of living is rising faster and higher than their…
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Time for CFPB to ‘Do the Right Thing’ and Enact Payday Loan Rules
The CFPB has functioned more recently to help predatory lenders than to fulfill its statutory mission of consumer protection.
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Prayers and Petitions Call for Payday Loan Rule Enactment
As payday lenders registered for the first day of their annual conference, clergy and other activists came to proclaim the…
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MALVEAUX: Predatory Lending Just the Tip of Iceberg
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is supposed to "protect" consumers from fraud and predatory lending. But since 45 has ruled…
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Activists, Clergy Support Feds’ Crackdown on Payday Lending
After five years of field hearings, town hall meetings, multiple research reports, and over one million comments, the Consumer Financial…
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Payday Lending is an Abomination in Plain Sight, says Baptist Preacher
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Every once in a while a congressional committee hearing can almost seem like…
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Why is CBC Member Rep. Alcee Hastings Pushing a Bill that Helps Predatory Lenders?
By Charlene Crowell NNPA News Wire Columnist Sometimes you just have to wonder what Members of Congress are thinking about.…
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Payday Lending Supporters Attack CFPB; Top Industry Lenders Face RICO Charges
By Charlene Crowell NNPA News Wire Columnist For years deceptive and predatory lenders have bilked millions of trusting consumers from…
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Patriarch of Payday Loans Said to Face U.S. Racketeering Probe
(Bloomberg) – In nearly two decades of payday lending, Charlie Hallinan stayed one step ahead of state laws while…
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