TALLAHASSEE – Nearly 17 years after the Legislature passed strict rules governing payday loans, a bipartisan push to loosen some of those regulations has emerged, which would push annualized interest rates up to more than 200 percent. Critics say the move will plunge poor people who become dependent...

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