Picking Workers’ Pockets: Unfair, Deceptive and Abusive Practices by Earned Wage Payday Lenders
Earned Wage Payday Lenders Are Picking Workers’ Pockets | NCLC Press Release | January 12, 2026 NCLC | download the Full report | download the […]
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Successful Challenges to Earned Wage Payday Loans
Successful Challenges to Earned Wage Payday Loans | NCLC Digital Library | November 12, 2025 “Earned wage payday loans, also known as payday loan apps,
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Nickel and Dimed: How Payday Loan Apps Drain Workers’ Pay and How to Stop Them
Center for Responsible Lending | policy brief | October 15, 2025 Center for Responsible Lending | download the brief | October 15, 2025 Payday loan
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Video – I Needed My Paycheck Early. Then I Got Cheated by These Apps.
From: More Perfect Union | August 15, 2025 There’s a new wave of predatory lenders on the market. Though “cash-advance” apps talk about fighting big
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Local opinion: If it looks like a loan, it’s a loan
By Mary Ryan | Special to the Arizona Daily Star, February 23, 2025 Remember when AZ lawmakers allowed 391% APR payday loans? We, the people of
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CFPB Halts Worker Payday Loan Evasions
Press release from NCLC | July 18, 2024 “A payday advance that is repaid on payday is a payday loan, and fintech cash advance apps
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Newsletter – Focus on Consumer Protections, May 2024
CEI Focus on Consumer Protections, May 30, 2024 This Newsletter, emailed to our subscribers, includes updates on Earned Wage Advance (worker payday loans), on monetary
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CFPB Distributes $384 Million to 191,000 Victims of Think Finance’s Illegal Lending Practices
Press release from CFPB | May 14, 2024 View the map of distribution dollars by state Arizona: Over $40 million dollars returned to Arizonans. WASHINGTON,
CFPB Returned Over $240M to Harmed Consumers in 10 States Home to Lawmakers Beholden to Financial Industry
Press release from Accountable.US | August 9, 2023 Download the report Arizona: The CFPB returned over $12.2 million in funds to 20,502 Arizonans from 2012
Newsletter, August 2023
CEI Newsletter for August, 2023 This month’s Newsletter, emailed to our subscribers, includes an annual report of our budget, a letter from the President, updates
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