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Column: Federal regulators step up their campaign against predatory payday lenders and their rip-offs
In 2017, the federal government was poised to give low-income consumers a respite from the myriad abuses and rip-offs visited on them by the payday lending industry. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in 2010 as part of the banking reforms …