From my gas pumping vantage point in my Tennessee hometown this past Sunday afternoon I spotted seven — yes, seven! — payday/title loan store fronts, including this one:

These legal loan sharks have made depressingly deep inroads in my native South, preying as they do upon the poor. To put things in perspective, there are about as many payday lenders in my small hometown as there are Dunkin’ Donuts in Manchester, NH. And that's saying something.

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