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Pay Up and Keep Paying

Ever been tempted to get a payday loan?  It’s so easy…and so dangerous.  As Credo points out, “The dirty secret of the payday lending industry is that there is no money in people repaying their loans on time. The key to the whole profit-making engine that makes lenders’ Wall Street backers rich is tricking people into taking out one loan and then locking them into months or years of debt. Charging hidden fees and demanding sky-high interest rates, payday lenders are little more than legal loan sharks.

Too many people, vulnerable because of low-paying jobs, a sudden medical or auto expense, and a hundred other situations, fall into this trap.  And it’s legal.

Read more about this at Credo Action.  If you think the Consumer Protection Agency should crack down on payday lenders, use Credo’s webpage to send them a strong message telling them just that.

 

 

What the Debt Ceiling is NOT Affected By

Confused by the talks about our nation’s spending?  How does raising the Debt Ceiling NOT create new debt we don’t already have?  Why is the drastically risen cost of programs that help the most vulnerable in our society only temporary? Why can Social Security NOT add to the national debt? Dollar Smiley Go to www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich to read The Hoax of Entitlement Reform, by Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor under Clinton and Prof. of Public Policy at UC Berkeley).