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nwhile, those who have maxed out their credit cards have been forced to turn elsewhere. One very expensive route is payday loans. As Jean Ann Fox of the Consumer Federation of America explains, this involves the borrower writing a cheque to the lender for the sum borrowed, plus the financing cost, which the lender cashes on payda