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What The People Think Of Payday Lending
Alternative Finances // April 25, 2017

A lot has been said and written about payday loans. In fact, there’s been a literal deluge of data on the subject: stacks of studies, reams of regulations, a plethora of public hearings and an otherwise unending series of arguments about whether or not this...

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What The People Think Of Payday Lending

April 25, 2017
A lot has been said and written about payday loans. In fact, there’s been a literal deluge of data on the subject: stacks of studies, reams of regulations, a plethora of public hearings and an otherwise unending series of arguments about whether or not this form of lending is a useful and well-understood type of […]

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Substitute Ohio Payday Loan Bill Friendlier To Lenders

July 10, 2018
Senate Republicans expressed frustration because store owners still aren’t satisfied with the new payday lending bill, which is friendlier to lenders. “You and your people have been involved in this bill for over a year since it was introduced,” Sen. Scott Oelslager, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Ted Saunders, CEO of CheckSmart’s parent […]