by Michelle Mosser | May 14, 2021 | National, News, Postal Banking
Photo by Brian Lipiner, myrecorujournal.com By Editorial Board, Bloomberg | May 13, 2021 The right kind of arrangement would help the USPS as well as millions of unbanked Americans. Should U.S. post offices also be banks? Lately, a group of legislators...
by Michelle Mosser | Mar 17, 2021 | National, News, Postal Banking, Public Bank, Public Banking
Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Jovan J, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Terri Friedline and Ameya Pawar, Chicago Sun-Times | March 16, 2021 The payday and auto title loan industry offers predatory loans to people who live in communities...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 30, 2020 | Bank of North Dakota, California, Economics, Local Economies, Postal Banking, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Greg Nash By Emily Stewart, Vox | October 30, 2020 A public option, but for banking. That’s what Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are proposing in a new bill unveiled on Friday. The Public Banking Act, first shared with Vox, wouldn’t...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 12, 2020 | California, News, Postal Banking
Photo by Greg Nash By Thomas M. Hanna and Jeff Olson, The Hill | October 9, 2020 Postal banking would offer a personal public banking option to everyone with a postal address The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is under attack and at grave risk. But with that...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Postal Banking, Public Bank, Public Banking, The Unbanked
Image courtesy paymentsjournal.com By McKenna Moore, Fortune | September 30, 2020 Postal banking is a form of public banking that would guarantee every American with a postal address a bank account. Over 6% of Americans—20.5 million people—are unbanked,...
by Michelle Mosser | Sep 21, 2020 | National, News, Postal Banking
Photo: Rural NM post office, by Joanna Poe (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams | September 17, 2020 Postal banking would offer fair, affordable and highly available public banking options for private citizens. “No one in America should...