Sounding out our latest Wendy Davis fact check

 Texas

Wendy Davis said payday lenders profit by charging 1,000-plus percent interest.

Half True, we concluded, finding average effective interest rates to be lower.

Nathan Bernier of Austin’s KUT, 90.5 FM, quizzed us about our work.

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Our Sources

Truth-O-Meter article, "Certain payday loans had effective interest rates of more than 1,000 percent for part of 2012," PolitiFact Texas, Jan. 8, 2014