Federal regulators look to severely curb payday lending nationwide

Friday, June 3, 2016

NEW YORK -- Federal regulators proposed a significant clampdown on payday lenders and other high interest loans Thursday, the first nationwide attempt to address an industry widely thought of as taking advantage of the poor and desperate.

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