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Wendy Davis said payday lenders profit by charging 1,000-plus percent interest.
Half True, we concluded, finding average effective interest rates to be lower.
Nathan Bernier of Austin's KUT, 90.5 FM, quizzed us about our work.
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Our Sources
Truth-O-Meter article, "Certain payday loans had effective interest rates of more than 1,000 percent for part of 2012," PolitiFact Texas, Jan. 8, 2014
