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Payday Loans
8:31 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Activists protest to lower payday loan interest rates, raise the minimum wage

Credit Tim Lloyd / St. Louis Public Radio
Justin Stein of Jobs with Justice leads protesters outside a payday loan shop on Grand Ave. on Wednesday, Sept. 5.

Supporters of a failed effort to place initiatives on the November ballot in Missouri that would cap interest rates on payday loans and raise the minimum wage rallied in St. Louis today.

From priests to teenagers, around 100 people marched around a payday loan shop on Grand Ave.

Jamala Rogers is with Jobs for Justice and helped collect signatures for the ballot initiatives.

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