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On the recordMarch 25, 2014
Payday lending is an experiment that began in the early 1990s in this country, and the goal was to try to make more credit available to financially fragile consumers.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Brown discusses the origins and intentions behind payday lending.

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