by PawnMaster | Jun 30, 2016 | Payday Loans
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about payday lending. Need a primer? Catch up here. Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the University of...
by PawnMaster | Jun 29, 2016 | Payday Loans
There are more payday lending storefronts in the United States than Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. Lenders loan to about 10 million people every year — an $89 billion industry. The “free cash now!” ads on talk radio and daytime television are incessant. Earlier...