ATLANTA -- Military officials warned Wednesday that the payday loan industry in Georgia is preying on young sailors and soldiers. The testimony came before the state House Banks and Banking Committee, ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- With a family to feed and no money for groceries, Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Damon LaForce recently did something the military is trying to crack down on: He went to one of the many ...

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Celia Winslow is president and CEO of the American Financial Services Association, the nation’s largest and oldest trade group of companies in the consumer credit marketplace.

Dori Zinn has been a personal finance journalist for more than a decade. Aside from her work for Forbes, her bylines have appeared on CNET, Yahoo! Finance, New York Times, Quartz, Inc. and more. She ...