State fails to curb usurious pawnshop rates
Little oversight as poor bear brunt
For the last seven years, Massachusetts banking officials have made fitful efforts to stop some of the state's poorest cities from letting pawnshops charge usurious interest rates for loans to the down-and-out. (Full article: 1568 words)
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