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9/19/2010

1. Project aims to fight payday-loan businesses
   Community activists have spent years fighting payday-loan businesses in Kansas City and asking government leaders to regulate them more strictly. Now they are trying another tack — giving those businesses some competition.
   (Published: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:06:50 -0700)

2. Campaigners demand an end to loan sharking
   More than 100 MPs are backing a campaign to end legal loan sharking by signing a parliamentary motion calling for a cap on the cost of credit.
   (Published: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:52:33 -0700)

3. PAYDAY LOANS: Iowa group targets Wells Fargo for bankrolling payday loan companies
   Iowans are calling for an end to short term, high interest loans. Iowa Citizens for Improvement or CCI says it begins by getting the lenders to stop bankrolling them. A report released today names Wells Fargo as the largest financier of payday loan companies. CCI members asked the bank to pull the plug on the industrys line of credit. "Payday lenders wouldnt be around if Wells Fargo wasnt ...
   (Published: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:57:51 -0700)

4. Payday loan store is robbed in Highland
   HIGHLAND - Police said a robber displayed a handgun and took anundisclosed amount of money from The Cash Store, in the 12000 blockof Route 143, shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday.
   (Published: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:27:13 -0700)

5. Squeezed by hard times, more resorting to pawnshops, payday loans
   As a nurse, Melvern Thompson was used to earning paychecks flush with overtime. Taking home $2,000 t
   (Published: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:28:13 -0700)

6. Major banks boost payday loan centers, report says
   As big banks were being bailed out by the federal government, they were lending money to payday loan companies and making huge profits, according to report issued Tuesday by a network of community organizations.
   (Published: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:33:44 -0700)

7. Payday Loan Store Robberies Have Employees On Edge
   Woman Wearing Sunglasses Suspected Detectives in both Highland and Wood River, Illinois are trying to track down a female robber, whos hit two Cash Stores in the last two weeks. In both cases, woman was wearing dark sunglasses and used a weapon. In Highland she used a hand gun and in Wood River, she used both a gun and knife.
   (Published: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:41:10 -0700)

8. BBB warns of payday debt collector scam
   The scammers are equipped with a disconcerting amount of personal information about their potential victims
   (Published: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:56:33 -0700)

9. BBB Warning About Payday Loan Scam
   The Better Business Bureau is warning area residents that scams involving payday loans are on the rise.
   (Published: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:30:31 -0700)

10. Some in China ready to drop its U.S. holdings and pour money into nation
    Chinas young bankers and budding economists are part of a wired, frustrated generation looking for their inheritance.
    (Published: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:50:35 -0700)