Oct. 2013 file picture: Amber Barnes, assistant manager at Advanced America cash loan Center, talks with some body regarding the phone in the Advanced America money Advanced Center location nearby the part of 41st Street and Western Avenue in Sioux Falls. (Picture: Joe Ahlquist – Argus Leader ) Buy Photo
PIERRE – Opponents of this payday financing industry will ask voters to ban high-interest loans in 2016 following the beat Wednesday of compromise legislation.
Rep. Steve Hickey, R-Sioux Falls, had been preparing to bring an initiated measure banning high-interest loans towards the 2014 ballot when payday financing organizations reached away to him to propose a deal: in the place of banning their industry outright, they’d come together on brand brand new laws for pay day loans. (more…)