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Arkansas now shed of payday loan stores
Posted: August 12, 2009 at 5:40 a.m.
Assistant Attorney General Jim DePriest speaks about the closures of payday lending stores thoughout Arkansas as he stands with opponents of the stores in front of a closed store along Asher Ave. on Tuesday morning.
The last of what had been as many as 275 "payday lending" stores in Arkansas have closed their doors nine months after the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that such loans were illegal.
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Payday lending is history in Arkansas
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