Why Getting A Payday Loan During COVID-19 Is A Terrible Move (And Why I Still Did It)
Co-published with HuffPost. $200 worth of groceries will end up costing me $550 due to the sky-high finance rate that came along with the loan.
The Shutdown Is Great for Lenders
Co-published with The Nation. Over 800,000 furloughed workers missed two paychecks during the most recent government shutdown. And credit unions, banks, and finance companies reaped the …
Can a New Kind of Payday Lender Help the Poor?
Co-published with The Nation. Oakland’s Community Check Cashing offers an unusual alternative for the underbanked.
Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Payday Lenders
Co-published with The New Yorker. Georgia has long struggled to rein in payday lenders, but even ambitious regulations can’t always stop the predatory practice.
America’s Poverty Tax
Co-published with The Daily Beast. While America’s jobs and economy remain flat, it’s getting more expensive to be poor, with everyone from payday lenders to subprime credit …