payday loans

Fort Wayne-based nonprofit Brightpoint is launching a new Community Loan Center program for the South Bend area. Participating employers effectively give employees payday advances up to $1,000, at no cost to the employer, to help employees who don't have checking accounts avoid high interest rates and fees.

Michigan elections officials — with a new member in the group — are evaluating whether a pair of constitutional amendments should appear on the November ballot.

It’s looking like a ballot question to limit service fees on payday loans did not qualify to go before Michigan voters this November.

Lawmakers debated whether to make local school board races partisan. A House committee easily advanced a billion-dollar tax cut. And the governor delivered his State of the State.

More than 47,000 Hoosier households were using a payday loan in the last 12 months according to the Indiana Institute for Working Families. A new…

A Senate committee revamped a bill that caps interest rates on many types of consumer credit after pushback from advocates and several lawmakers. However,…