2: MIKE HUDSON is a contributing editor for "Southern Exposure," a public policy magazine. This past fall, HUDSON wrote a series of stories on the "poverty industry"-- how pawn shops, finance companies, and rent-to-own stores charge high interest rates, sometimes as high as 35%, to people who can almost never pay them back. His articles placed "Southern Exposure" as a finalist for this year's National Magazine Award for Public Interest reporting.
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