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	<description>The UK’s poorest borrowers pay the highest price for credit in Europe - we can change that</description>
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		<title>New report shows urgency of private debt crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported in Saturday&#8217;s Independent our new report, jointly produced with Birmingham based think tank, the Human City Institute is based on 252 interviews with tenants on a social housing estate in the Midlands. The research combined with existing literature shines a light on the growing personal debt crisis and questions the government&#8217;s economic strategy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/465</link>
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		<title>Thank You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The End Legal Loan Sharking campaign took a major step forward when the government announced it will explore how a cap on the cost of credit could affect consumers. This would not have happened without the thousands of emails, letters, events and personal stories that came from activists like you, so we wanted to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/460</link>
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		<title>Response to launch of Payday lenders Code of Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The centre for responsible credit have reacted to today&#8217;s release of the Payday lenders Code of Practice by labelling it a &#8216;bitter dissapointment&#8217;. Read the full response below: Payday lenders have failed to clean up their act: Government must now intervene The Code of Practice being launched today by payday lenders is a bitter disappointment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/452</link>
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		<title>Pressure your MP to End Legal Loan Sharking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An amendment to the Finance Bill will be voted on today. This gives us another chance to lobby MPs to cap the cost of credit. To lobby your MP, use this simple tool devised by 38 degrees: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/end-legal-loan-sharking]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/446</link>
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		<title>Veronika Thiel &#8211; Introducing price caps in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The discussion around price capping for credit has warmed up again over the past few months thanks to the sterling work of Stella Creasy who is campaigning to introduce a cap on the total cost of credit in the UK. There are many good arguments for the cap, which would prevent the usurious pricing practices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/439</link>
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		<title>Matthew Fulton &#8211; The Successful Norwich Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before this campaign began I was fortunate enough to have attended sessions given by London Citizens where I was reminded that the most important part of a campaign was to get the community to back you. In addition to this during a media training event that I attended with the Labour Party we were taught [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/434</link>
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		<title>CAP make Brighthouse listen!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A campaign by Church Action on Poverty supporters has persuaded another high-cost lender to start listening to their customers. This is how they did it&#8230; Church Action on Poverty is currently working with people who are trapped in poverty by their debts to high-cost lenders. We&#8217;ve organised a very productive series of roundtable meetings, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/430</link>
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		<title>Provident doorstepped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Thornton, campaigns officer of Church Action on Poverty asked some difficult questions at the Provident AGM regarding the companies record on social responsibility. Read more at http://is.gd/pROz8w]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/426</link>
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		<title>Financial pressures driving high cost credit market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over a quarter (28%) of Britons have considered using a payday loans website in the last 12 months due to increased financial difficulties according to a new online poll. Read more at http://is.gd/AGv1sY]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/423</link>
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		<title>Matthew Fulton &#8211; The public to private debt transfer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stella Creasy has written a Blog for Labour Uncut which is worth a read. She is absolutely right when she says that the coalition is attempting to shift the deficit from the public purse to the private wallet. In so doing they have managed to reduce the public debt by 43 billion while increasing private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.endlegalloansharks.org.uk/archives/419</link>
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