Tram Nguyen
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Tram Nguyen is media and development coordinator at the California Reinvestment Coalition ColorLines (www.calreinvest.org), which advocates for the right of low-income communities and communities of color to have fair and equal access to banking and other financial services.

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Predatory Lending Gets a Boost from the NYT

Posted November 21, 2008 | 01:14 PM (EST)

One business that's booming these days is payday lending. As the economy worsens, more people are turning to payday loans to get cash advanced from their paychecks for groceries, gas, and even mortgage payments. They pay fees at astronomical rates of up to 459 percent annual interest, fueling an industry...

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Beyond Guantanamo

Posted December 5, 2007 | 02:58 PM (EST)

It may be baffling to some people why the American public hasn't become outraged by the fact that our government conducts torture in its name, even in the wake of Abu Ghraib and the transformation of once-obscure terms like "rendition" and "waterboarding" into the vernacular of popular culture.

Is...

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