A man from Allentown, Pennsylvania, found himself drowning in payday loan debt after losing his job, and he called into “The ...
Michigan stands at a crossroads as it considers capping interest rates on payday loans at 36%. Senate bill 632 has already passed the Senate with bi-partisan support, and this bill and its companion, ...
You need cash to pay an important bill, and you haven't got it. What do you do? Many Americans turn to payday loans to fill this gap, even though the interest rates are staggering – an average of ...
When Jessica Vega landed her first job out of college as a case manager for a nonprofit organization, money was tight. But she was excited to move out of her mother’s house and into an apartment of ...
Payday loans in our community are like seawater to the thirsty — they may seem like relief at first, but ultimately cause more harm than help. Recently, an op-ed was published (“Dunleavy was right to ...
Dori Zinn has been a personal finance journalist for more than a decade. Aside from her work for Forbes, her bylines have appeared on CNET, Yahoo! Finance, New York Times, Quartz, Inc. and more. She ...
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to "cap outlandish interest rates on payday loans and to improve disclosure" of the short-term, high-interest loans. After years of ...
On the 120th and last day of Alaska’s annual legislative session, the state House passed a bill that would curb high interest rates and fees for payday loans of $25,000 or less. The Senate passed ...