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Payday loan industry profits, fights regulation

Keith Epstein of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund provides an inside look at the tactics of the influential $42 billion-a-year payday lending industry, which is thriving from a surge in […]
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Stimulus funds for renewable energy continue to flow overseas

Money from the 2009 stimulus bill to help support the renewable energy industry continues to flow overseas, despite Congressional criticism and calls for change, according to a new analysis of […]
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Feds make collection firms open debt sale records

Isaac Wolf of Scripps Howard News Service in Washington reports that "federal authorities have issued a sweeping order for some of the nation's largest debt-collecting companies to open their books. In […]
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Stimulus funds go to troubled corporations

Will Evans of California Watch found large corporations in California are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus dollars despite a history of environmental violations and a host […]
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Bank collapse exposed oversight and inspection problems

A two-part report by The Denver Post examines how the federal and state bank regulatory system collapsed in the last decade, failing to catch fraud at New Frontier Bank, one […]
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Top subprime lender willingly pushed through fraudulent loans

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund exposes how lending practices at Washington Mutual's subprime lender, Long Beach Mortgage, allowed fraud to run rampant. Former employees say efforts to stop fraudulent loan […]
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Stimulus loans scarce for minority-owned businesses

Aaron Glantz of New American Media reports that analysis of data from the federal government's Small Business Association (SBA) revealed racial inequities in small business loans given out as part […]
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Distribution of economic development loans questioned

The Buffalo News analyzed loans and grants data to see how the city "spends the federal funds it receives to promote economic development and urban renewal." The analysis showed that […]
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Gambling with state pension plan may cost state jobs, services

Mackenzie Ryan of the Statesman Journal (Salem, Ore.) recently investigated a new and controversial financial strategy in Oregon that attempts to lower a public agency's pension system. The arbitrage strategy […]
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Loans brokered by nonprofits contributed to housing crisis

A review of government and court records by the Huffington Post Investigation Fund shows that two nonprofit groups worked closely with some of the nation's biggest home builders to broker […]
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