A Victory in the Battle Against Payday Loan Scams

‘In a Temple, Texas food pantry, it didn’t take long for Kristen Bulgrien to discover many of their walk-ins were in massive debt.
“We were finding that a lot of our clients who were coming for financial assistance were in debt to payday lenders and they’d come in for help. And of course we want to help and do all we can, but far better to pass an ordinance that’s going to protect people,” Bulgrien, the Helping Hands community partnership director, says in Deidox Films’ newest documentary, The Ordinance, which documents an unprecedented victory against payday lenders.’
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