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How payday loans in Wisconsin hit borrowers

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

April 29, 2022

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Melody Harvey, a consumer science professor at UW-Madison, explains how payday loans create cycles of debt for borrowers who accrue high short-term interest rates, which are not capped in Wisconsin.

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