Rachelle Arroyave says she was naïve when her husband left for his first tour in Iraq. “We didn’t even talk about it,” she says of the possibility that he could die.

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A landmark Pentagon study released in August 2006 found that the average payday borrower paid $834 for a $339 loan—about $2.45 for each dollar borrowed.