Legal and Economic Inducements to Predatory Practices

Why the Poor Pay More: How to Stop Predatory Lending

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 103-132

  Ernst, Keith ^a,b   Goldstein, Deborah N ^a,b   Richardson, Christopher A ^c  

^a Self Help Credit Union   (United States)

^b Center for Responsible Lending   (United States)

^c Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division ^*  (United States)

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