As a group who spends 100% of it's resources organizing the working poor, ACORN has seen the damage done by predatory lenders. We have worked hard in over a dozen states to bring this to the public eye and help curb the new robber barons of the 21st century.
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Slavery never really goes away, it just changes forms. The economic one seems to be most popular in the 21st century, at least in the first world, where industries like predatory lending, with it's addittional soak-the-working-poor components such as title loans, adjustable rate home loans, and all those happy video poker machines in every tavern. To those above who lump it all together in the free market system I would point out, respectfully to their keysian reality tunnels, that the role og gobernment is to make a society that creates the greatest good for the most. Philosophical musings about money lending …
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