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 rewards.

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 cards charging extortionate rates.