This balanced Columbus Business First story explains the issue in Ohio as being a question of access to credit:
While advocates and opponents have been arguing over payday lending for the past year, broader issues related to credit have come front and center only recently when the mortgage crisis seized the financial services industry.
That backdrop has […]
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They’re beginning to get it
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
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Ohio showdown on Friday
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
A hearing on the signature gathering issue has been scheduled. From the Columbus Dispatch story:
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has tapped a well-known Columbus attorney to decide whether to recommend that a number of payday lending signatures should be tossed out for a paperwork violation.
The Yes on 5 committee, which is fighting a proposed referendum by […]
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Business First of Columbus: Senate passes payday lending bill
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
The article quotes CFSA president D. Lynn DeVault, “Operating under H.B. 545 is not economically feasible. Our member companies say they expect stores to close and jobs to be lost.”
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