In the universe with payday lending, is one answering the question of how to make poverty a sustainable profitable enterprise? A lot of people are getting rich off of keeping people poor. And so how do we reform anything that is based on that premise? The short answer is we don't.
Ayanna Pressley: “In the universe with payday lending, is one answering the question of how to make poverty a sustainable profitable…”
On the recordApril 29, 2019
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Pressley criticizes payday lending as a system that profits from poverty.
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