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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Predatory Lending

Payday loans’ potentially predatory replacement, By Gillian B. White, August 12, 2016, The Atlantic: “Dangerous, high-cost lending isn’t going away anytime soon.  While some have heralded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s long-awaited payday-lending regulations as significant progress toward the end of predatory lending practices, other, similar products have, as predicted, started to take their place…”