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.

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 …

Co-published with The Nation. Oakland’s Community Check Cashing offers an unusual alternative for the underbanked.

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.

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 …