Saturday, February 16, 2008

Bible Belt, GOP & Payday Loans


Image of Jesus and the Money Changers from Roman Catholic Blog

I found this story very interesting, particularly because of an email I received this morning. For some reason, spam has been on an uptick lately, and it's smart spam, that is getting around the filters. One of the ones I received was a Christian Debt program, with a cross for the "T" in the logo, and everything. I would have saved it, had I known I'd run across this story. It adds credence though, doesn't it?

[Excerpt]

Study Says Payday Lenders More Prevelant in Areas of High Christian Conservative Power

A law professor and associate professor of geography set out to create the most comprehensive map of U.S. payday lenders to date. What they found, to their surprise, was "a surprising relationship between populations of Christian conservatives and the proliferation of payday lenders." And it's not a side effect of a poor population that happens to be Christian, according to the authors: "Our research showed that the correlation between payday lenders and the political power of conservative Christians was stronger than the correlation between payday lenders and the proportion of a population living below the poverty line."

Read more (with informative graphs) at: The Consumerist

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