Oceanside council restricts new payday loan stores (North County Times)
OCEANSIDE -- Responding to a January request from a top Marine that the number of payday loan businesses around Camp Pendleton be limited, the Oceanside City Council approved restrictions Wednesday that make it virtually impossible for new lending stores to open.

Nixon, others call for restrictions on payday loan industry (Carthage Press)
Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorney General Jay Nixon, clergy leaders, and several Democratic legislators are calling for restrictions on Missouri’s payday loan industry, saying it is profiting on the backs of the state’s most vulnerable people.

Payday Lending and The Debt Trap: On The Rise In California (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Fewer borrowers took out more predatory payday loans in California last year, according to new data from the California Department of Corporations.(1) As a result, more borrowers were getting caught deeper and deeper in the payday lending debt trap.

Nixon, others call for payday loan industry reforms (Jefferson City News Tribune)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Attorney General Jay Nixon, clergy leaders, and several Democratic legislators on Tuesday called for reforms of Missouri's payday loan industry, saying it is profiting on the backs of the state's most vulnerable people.

Group calls for regulation of payday loan industry (Columbia Missourian)
ST. LOUIS — Attorney General Jay Nixon, clergy leaders, and several Democratic legislators are calling for restrictions on Missouri’s payday loan industry, saying it is profiting on the backs of ...

Sonoma West News (Sonoma West Times and News)
This week's financial report from Palm Drive Hospital is “more of the same,” meaning cash is tight, business is steady and all fingers are crossed.

A Guide to Today's Financial Stock Bargains (Morningstar.com via Yahoo! Finance)
U.S. bank stocks are on sale--and investors should jump aboard.

After buyouts, smaller banks emerge (The San Francisco Examiner)
Following a rash of buyouts of many of the Bay Area's small banks by bigger companies and consolidation, a group of new bank startups have emerged to fill the community-sized niche.

Local doctors consider rural health care issues (Siskiyou Daily News)
SISKIYOIU COUNTY – Escalating health care costs and a increasing number of people unable to afford those costs have put health care reform on the front burner for both federal and California state legislatures.

1,000th Foster Youth in California Takes Innovative Financial Literacy Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES----At 18, Curtis Binns, a high school graduate, had never taken a class on money management. In early July, he and other foster youth living in the Transitional Independent Living program at Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services in Pasadena, arrived for the first in a series of classes called Financial Firsts, to help prepare them for the transition to living independently ...