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The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s an income share loan?

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a contract.

They give you some money now, and, instead of an interest rate and a term for repayment, they get a percentage of your future income for some period of time.

Particularly shitty ones continue even if you repay the original loan amount.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

It looks like they didn't even get the money, these were "student loans" so the money just went to pay for the tuition.