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June 26, 2009
AZ Daily Star: Congress should protect all from payday loans
Our view: Bill would extend safeguards that cover the military to rest of society
Congress is finally attempting to do for the general public what it did three years ago for military members — protect them from predatory payday lending.
The Protecting Consumers from Unreasonable Credit Rates Act of 2009, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., [...]
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June 15, 2009
AZ Republic: Push to enshrine rates for payday loans flawed
Today’s Republic Editorial:
The payday-loan industry is the subject of efforts in Congress aimed at fixing things that Arizonans recognized as problematic last November.
The challenge for members of the national Democratic majority - who have long claimed the mantle of consumer advocate - is to choose as wisely as Arizona voters did.
Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s House [...]
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June 9, 2009
The “400 Faces” Campaign Launches
by Adam Doster, Progress Illinois:
Efforts to rein in the payday lending industry may have stalled in Springfield last month, but the battle in Washington is just heating up. After holding a hearing in April, Rep. Luis Gutierrez will likely bring his Payday Loan Reform Act of 2009 up for a committee vote this session. And [...]
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June 5, 2009
Bishop calls for end to payday loans
United Methodist News Service reports:
When she became ill, a widow living on $500 a month couldn’t pay her medical bills and still meet her basic cost of living. She didn’t want to be a burden to her children so she got a “payday loan,” thinking when she was well enough she could earn some extra [...]
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May 27, 2009
USA Today - Our view on consumer protection: Beyond credit card reform
Today’s USA Today Editorial:
Why not scrutinize financial products before they’re offered?
Consumers won a big victory last week when Congress passed and President Obama signed a measure to rein in some of the credit card industry’s most abusive practices.
But faster than the president could sign the bill into law, the credit industry was already planning “innovations” [...]
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May 18, 2009
NYT: 36 Percent Is High Enough
In today’s New York Times:
Editorial –
Federal regulators made a disastrous decision when they allowed banks to evade one state’s interest-rate restrictions by incorporating in another state that had no such restrictions. As a result, customers everywhere have been socked with ruinous interest rates, penalties and fees that would once have been illegal under state usury [...]
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April 13, 2009
NY Times: 391 Percent Payday Loan
April 11, 2009
AZ Daily Star: Some in D.C. take wrong side on payday loans
April 10, 2009
Rollover Bans Don’t Stop Payday Trap
April 9, 2009
Congress Going Easy on Payday Loan Dealers
April 8, 2009
Gutierrez Proposes Weak Reform of Payday Lenders
April 5, 2009
D.C. payday lender bill jeopardizes AZ law
April 5, 2009
The Consumerist: House Preparing to Legalize Payday Loans with 391% APRs
April 5, 2009
Payday loan industry turns to Congress
March 6, 2009
Republic: Hearing on high-interest loan bill postponed
March 5, 2009
AZ Daily Star: Legislature must reject predatory loan measure
March 5, 2009
Republic: Bill that permits triple-digit loan interest revived
March 3, 2009
Republic: House panel rejects bill on loan interest
February 23, 2009
MSNBC: Payday loan company settles for $2.5 million
January 29, 2009
AZ Consumers Council: Payday lenders - A cure that worsens the disease
January 17, 2009
Trib: Mesa to fight any help for payday lenders
December 29, 2008
Arizona Republic letters: Legislator caving in on payday loans
December 22, 2008
NPR Marketplace: Financial products need new regulation
December 8, 2008
Daily Star: Ballot failure costly for payday lenders
November 21, 2008
The Economist: Casting out the money-lenders
November 12, 2008
Star Editorial: Payday lending industry down, but not out
November 11, 2008
Howard Fischer: Payday-loan industry in quandary
November 10, 2008
Daily Star: Future of payday loans lies with lawmakers
November 10, 2008
Arizona Republic: Vote may be the end of payday lenders
November 8, 2008
Check Into Cash to keep Ohio, Arizona stores open
November 7, 2008
Voters reject 400 percent interest payday loans
November 6, 2008
East Valley Trib: Payday lenders ponder next move after defeat
November 5, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Payday lenders lose big in Ohio - and deservedly so
November 5, 2008
Star: Grass roots trump cash on Prop. 200
November 4, 2008
WE DID IT!
November 2, 2008
Shriver Center: Arizona and Ohio Ballot Measures May Curtail Reasonable Payday Loan Regulations
November 1, 2008
East Valley Trib: Prop 200 payday loan reform ads not telling whole story
October 31, 2008
Letters: PREYday loans
October 31, 2008
Tucson Citizen: Payday loan industry’s deceitful tactics seek to fool voters
October 30, 2008
Arizona Republic: Reject Prop 200
October 30, 2008
TZR: Religious leaders unite to oppose Prop 200
October 28, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Payday Lenders Back Measures to Unwind State Restrictions
October 27, 2008
AZ Republic: Prop 200: It won’t fix payday loans
October 22, 2008
Eastern AZ Courier: Vote ‘no’ on Payday Loan Reform Act
October 22, 2008
Payson Roundup: Our view on perplexing propositions
October 21, 2008
AZ Republic: 5% of UA freshmen obtained payday loan
October 21, 2008
Sierra Vista Herald: Vote ‘no’ on Prop. 200
October 20, 2008
AZ Daily Star: VOTE NO on Prop 200
October 16, 2008
AZ Daily Sun: Payday loan campaign a shameful exercise in direct democracy
October 15, 2008
Yuma Sun: Payday loan causing Yuma woman financial hardship
October 12, 2008
Arizona Republic: Against Prop. 200
October 12, 2008
Arizona Republic: Industry [says] “Prop 200 payday-loan rules help all”
October 11, 2008
Laurie Roberts, AZ Republic: “fibs, falsifications and fairy tales”
September 23, 2008
Washington Post: All eyes on payday lending struggle in Ohio, Ariz.
September 19, 2008
AZ Capitol Times: Prop 200 offers consumer choice or debt trap — take your pick
September 17, 2008
AZ Daily Star: Revealing truth about predatory payday lending
September 17, 2008
EVT: Goddard decries payday loans; urges voters to reject Prop. 200
September 16, 2008
Republic: Goddard opposes raising payday loan rates
September 11, 2008
Bishop Kirk S. Smith Urges NO on 200
September 7, 2008
