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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
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.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticizes payday lending as a system that profits from poverty.

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