The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. May 13, 2016 Google to Ban Advertising by Payday Lenders ------------------------------------------- Google has announced it will ban advertising by payday lenders from its site. It's the company's first global ban on a whole category of financial products. Advocates argue that payday lending is an exploitative industry that traps low-income people in cycles of debt. Topics:Economy .