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	<title>Online Payday Loans</title>
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		<title>CompareCashLoans.com Gets a Facelift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CompareCashLoans.com recently got a facelift.
Renovations include improved design, navigation, robust sorting capabilities and additional information to help consumers make informed loan decisions.
A banks category has been added to the existing credit unions, P2P lending services and payday lenders categories.

You can now sort unsecured cash loan providers by name, date, average user rating, number of votes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/updates/comparecashloans-facelift/</link>
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		<title>Demographic Study of Online Payday Loan Consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government-knows-best bureaucrats would have us believe that payday lenders &#8220;prey on the poor and uneducated.&#8221;
A payday loan shop employee, on the other hand, told us that most of their customers are educated, make over $30,000 a year and (ironically) work for the government.
We decided to do a demographic study of online payday loan consumers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/articles/demographic-study-payday-loan-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Daniel O&#8217;Sullivan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fifteen is the magic number&#8230; Once it gets below $15, the attractiveness of the product goes away exponentially, given the fact that loan losses can be quite significant.&#8221;
Equity analyst Daniel O&#8217;Sullivan believes that a payday loan shop must charge a minimum of $15 per $100 borrowed to remain profitable&#8230;

Calculated using the Payday Loan Calculator (External [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/quotes/daniel-o-sullivan/</link>
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		<title>Update: Payday Loan Laws that Hurt Consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our popular article Five Six Payday Loan Laws that Hurt Consumers has been updated&#8230;

Today, a kind reader from Virginia brought it to our attention that a city councilman in Alexandria proposed a business licensure tax increase for payday loan shops to the maximum allowable by state law.
We found three news articles which confirmed this story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/updates/laws-that-hurt-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Manitoba Public Utilities Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Board anticipates that the maximum charges established by this Order will result in some, if not many, payday lenders exiting Manitoba, and acknowledges that such a result will bring transitory hardship to some payday loan borrowers who will either have to establish an alterative source of credit or do without.&#8221;
According to Maximum Charges for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/quotes/manitoba-public-utilities-board/</link>
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		<title>Privacy Policy Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have updated our privacy policy&#8230;

The new policy can be found at the bottom of our About Us page.
Recent Posts:

05/05/2009: CompareCashLoans.com Gets a Facelift
06/16/2008: Demographic Study of Online Payday Loan Consumers
05/26/2008: Daniel O&#8217;Sullivan
04/24/2008: Update: Payday Loan Laws that Hurt Consumers
04/07/2008: Manitoba Public Utilities Board

Random Posts:

10/04/2006: Attorney General Lisa Madigan
08/08/2007: Tommy Moore
11/29/2006: Payday Loan Checklist - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/updates/privacy-policy-update/</link>
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		<title>Christopher Lewis Peterson and Steven M. Graves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This analysis suggests that&#8230; the payday lending industry has now fundamentally transformed the financial services sector catering to lower income Americans. Moreover, our findings should serve as conclusive proof that conservative Christian Americans are a prime demographic target of the payday lending industry.&#8221;
Christopher Lewis Peterson and Steven M. Graves came to this fascinating conclusion in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/quotes/peterson-graves/</link>
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		<title>Compare Cash Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compare Cash Loans (CompareCashLoans.com) is an objective comparison of unsecured cash loan options.
Using the site, you can compare short-term, small-dollar cash loans offered by P2P lending services, credit unions, utilities (in the form of late payment fees), banks (in the form of overdraft “protection”) and, of course, payday loans.
The site compares loans by amount, duration, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/links/compare-cash-loans/</link>
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		<title>Meghan Hoyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s why neighborhoods with lower median incomes - such as Norfolk&#8217;s Berkley and Portsmouth&#8217;s Brighton/Prentis Park - have no payday lenders, while Portsmouth&#8217;s solidly suburban subdivisions along Portsmouth Boulevard near Chesapeake Square Mall have a cluster of them.&#8221;
The Virginian-Pilot staff writer Meghan Hoyer found that payday lenders target middle-class neighborhoods and avoid poor areas of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/quotes/meghan-hoyer/</link>
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		<title>Tasnuva Ahmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sometimes [a payday loan] is your only option. I respect the fact that they&#8217;re there when you need them. You have bills, and you have to pay them. But I have never recommended this to anyone. You can&#8217;t catch up.&#8221;
Payday loan consumer Tasnuva Ahmed, who has been using cash advance loans regularly for two years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.online-payday-loans.org/quotes/tasnuva-ahmed/</link>
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