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• n  the day on which you receive pay for your work

• Thanks to an unprecedented auction, British artist Damien Hirst is about to have the biggest payday in art history.
• The burgeoning payday-loan industry includes publicly owned companies.
• Women's Ultimate Fighting In Fatal Femmes Fighting, women athletes are looking for a good brawl and a better payday Photographs for PTI by Robert Gallagher.

News & Articles

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• Iowa cities bypass state to halt payday lenders
  DES MOINES (AP) — Efforts to limit payday lenders in Iowa have repeatedly failed in the Legislature, but more cities are approving zoning changes that make it harder to open the businesses. Cedar Rapids last week became the latest city to approve an ordinance that bans the short-term loan businesses from certain areas. It became the sixth Iowa city to approve such a law since 2010, leaving ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Fairfield Ledger
• Black Hats Mock Google's Matt Cutts With Payday Loan Hack
  As you probably remember, Google launched a new spam algorithm to target spammy queries such as payday loans. It had a serious impact on spammers from what I see, which I will cover right after this story. But before I cover the impact, I wanted to share what some SEO or blackhatter did to try to mock Google's Matt Cutts. Search for [ payday loans ] in Google UK and you will see on the first ...
  June 17, 2013 - Search Engine Roundtable
• Iowa Cities Bypass State to Limit Payday Lenders
  Efforts to limit payday lenders in Iowa have repeatedly failed in the Legislature, but more cities are approving zoning changes that make it harder to open the businesses.
  June 16, 2013 - WOWT Omaha

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in The Hill
  I will not allow amendments like this one written by Wall Street's lobbyists to pass for reform,Obama said in a statement. "This amendment will significantly weaken consumer protection oversight, includes dangerous carve-outs for payday...
• David Paterson in WENY-TV
  No longer are we going to run New York like a payday loan operation,said Paterson.
• Lindsay Lohan in San Francisco Chronicle
  Lohan writes on her Twitter.com blog, "No formula was stolen for Sevin Nyne! It's a woman looking for a payday. That's it!"