West Virginia Congressional Delegation Should Correct Rent-a-Bank Scheme

Andy Spears
2 min readApr 28, 2021

The Charleston Gazette-Mail published an editorial encouraging West Virginia’s congressional delegation to take action to stop payday predators.

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Cross any of West Virginia’s borders and one of the first things you’ll notice is a host of payday lending or check cashing businesses. These operations typically give those who are having money problems a loan with ridiculously high interest rates that snowball and keep the borrower under their thumb.

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .