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Cooperative Baptists in Kentucky champion cap on payday loan interest rates

lendjustlyadmin - Mar 16, 2015

Religious leaders address the payday loan debt trap

lendjustlyadmin - Mar 13, 2015

Payday Lenders Escaped Regulation, but Now They Face the Church

lendjustlyadmin - Mar 12, 2015

Churches step in with alternative to high-interest, small-dollar lending industry

lendjustlyadmin - Feb 25, 2015

Catholic News Service: Payday lending a top obstacle to financial independence...

lendjustlyadmin - Feb 21, 2015

Christian Leaders Condemn Payday Lenders who Con the Poor

lendjustlyadmin - Feb 12, 2015

The Grinches Who Steal Christmas

lendjustlyadmin - Dec 26, 2014

Thigpen, Cherry: Come together to end the payday loan debt trap

lendjustlyadmin - Dec 24, 2014

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Religious Leaders Speak

“We are concerned that our charitable dollars are in fact funding the profits of the payday lenders rather than helping the poor achieve self-sufficiency.”
Bishop Joe Vasquez
Diocese of Austin, Texas

“Jesus wanted people to make a good living, just not take advantage of the poor.”
Pastor Travis Coleman, Jr. Alabama Baptist State Convention President

"Exploiting the working poor with payday lending is an egregious practice that goes against God’s word to help the poor and instead, puts a chokehold on some of America's most vulnerable families.”
Rev. Dr. Billy G. Russell, Pastor Greater Friendship Baptist Church in Minneapolis

“They can tell us that this is just about helping people, but it’s an intentionally crafted defective product that is marketed to the financially unsophisticated. They’re bilking billions of dollars out of poor neighborhoods, and the taxpayers get to clean up the mess.”
Steve Hickey, Pastor, State Representative
(R - South Dakota)

“As evangelicals committed to justice we deeply lament the predatory lending that has disproportionately impacted poor communities. Scripture is clear about its denouncement of usury and calls us to call for laws that defend against it. Silence is not an option.”
Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, Pres., National Latino Evangelical Coalition

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