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Trump administration rolls back payday loan protections, affects youth (2019)

cnbc.com

4 points by stopbulying 20 days ago · 1 comment

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stopbulyingOP 20 days ago

> These loans can be extremely risky because they're expensive: The national average annual percentage rate (APR) for a payday loan is almost 400 percent. That's over 20 times the average credit card interest rate.

> And often, borrowers can't pay back the loan right away. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that nearly 1 in 4 payday loans are re-borrowed nine times or more, while Pew found it generally takes borrowers roughly five months to pay off the loans — and costs them an average of $520 in finance charges. That's on top of the amount of the original loan.

500 + 520 = 1020

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