Payday Parasites

BY OPENING Virginia's doors to the payday lending industry in 2002, lawmakers in Richmond in effect declared open season on some of the state's most financially strapped and vulnerable residents. In the wake of the legislature's action, hundreds of lending stores set up shop, mostly in poorer nei...

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