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Payday bill advocates seeking support
Louisville Courier-Journal
Supporters of a bill to limit the cost of payday loans sought to drum up support Monday, saying they will have to work hard against a well-financed industry
Owens Offers Bill to Cap Interest on Pay-Day LoansWFPL
Payday Loan businesses under fireWYMT

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QC Holdings pulls higher profits out of lower revenue
Financial News USA (press release)
The Overland Park-based provider of payday loans and other short-term loans (Nasdaq: QCCO) posted 2009 earnings of $19.8 million, or $1.10 a share,

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Payday Loan businesses under fire
WYMT
They claim payday loans with high interest rates create a "debt trap" that loan takers cannon escape. A lobbyist representing the cash advance businesses,
Owens Offers Bill to Cap Interest on Pay-Day LoansWFPL

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Owens Offers Bill to Cap Interest on Pay-Day Loans
WFPL
Owens and 19 co-sponsors are offering legislation capping interest on payday loans at 36-percent annually. “I feel, very strongly, that we can get this done

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Public hearing planned on payday lending legislation
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Instead, the bill would protect consumers by creating a database of payday loans to ensure borrowers couldn't take out more than one loan at a time.

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Payday lenders are not well regulated
StandardNet
13 states have made payday lending illegal or virtually impossible. Is it any wonder we see more and more payday loan businesses popping up in our

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Excerpts From Recent Wisconsin Editorials
WCCO
How else to describe Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan's decision to date a lobbyist for the payday loan industry? Perception can mean as much as

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It's Expensive to be Poor
New America Foundation (blog)
She had to take out a payday loan to make it to the next paycheck, only to find out that it came with a 300% interest rate. (In reality, payday loans often

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Three Steps to Prevent the Financial Pain of Payday Loans
Credit Loan (blog)
The nation's bad economy – with its high unemployment rate – is turning payday loans into a more important tool for a growing number of consumers.

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The Cohen debacle
Politico (blog)
be someone to take a candidate's money, particularly a self-funding candidate. It is not a wise gamble that someone's conscience will outweigh his paycheck.

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