How do payday loan places prey on the poor?

People who use pay day loans probably can’t get credit anywhere else due to damaged credit and had something come up that needed to be paid right away that had they an emergency fund would have covered (flat tire, unexpected bill, illness). People who are using these types of places are probably already living paycheck to paycheck already so that they’ll never be able to get out of the cycle of the pay day loan. States that allow people to have more than one pay day loan out at once really open them self to trouble, because then they’ll start using one to pay the other and not really pay off either. Not to mention the fees are steep, but if you can’t get help anywhere else…they are a better choice than what the bank charges you for over the limit and overdraft fees. I think they have a legitimate place in our society, although not pretty. It’s a nature of the financial envirnoment right now. It’s really hard to get up out of it.