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'Payday Loans' Plague New Mexico's Working Poor

by Eric Mack, NPR
February 5, 2007

New Mexico's high poverty rate has created a climate for a practice that many question but the government does not yet regulate: loans made against paychecks. Legislators have failed in the past to control the loans, but they're trying again.

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  • Morning Edition, February 5, 2007
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