Testimony of Uriah King, Center for Responsible Lending before the Ohio Senate Finance and Financial Institutions Committee

Executive summary of Springing the Debt Trap - outlines what reforms states have tried, documents that none have worked except for the 36% rate cap.

A working paper by a staffer at the Fed Bank of NY is fundamentally flawed, offers no valid information, and is being used to justify policy that keeps low-wealth borrowers trapped in income-draining payday loans. The paper is not a Federal Reserve Bank report as a payday industry press release implies. Our critique exposes the fatal errors in the paper's methodology.

Facing increasing scrutiny of the problems caused by payday lending, the industry trade group recently announced a new public relations campaign that claims to address the problem of loan flipping by requiring its lenders to offer borrowers an extended payment plan. However, this plan will not give borrowers a viable option for escaping the debt trap, and a description of the guidelines suggests lenders will offer the plan to borrowers in trouble only once per year despite the fact that the typical borrower has nine loans per year.

CRL critiques faulty research report by Don Morgan, which attempts to compare states with and without payday lending but misidentifies many of those states.

Brief analysis of Georgia's law preventing payday lenders from circumventing their consumer credit interest rate cap and other protections.