The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Is the Postal Banking Movement Being Too Careful to Succeed?
Failure of imagination at the top undermines hard work at the grassroots. Because at the end of the day, a people’s banking system strikes bipartisan terror in the hearts of the elites.
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The War On the Post Office
The U.S. Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding to survive. Postal banking could fill that need.
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Swiss Reject Basic Income, But New Economy Still Firmly on Global Agenda
We now know ecological and economic security are linked and the Swiss rejection of basic income won't change that.
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How Payday Lenders Are Beating Back Reform in Alabama
The payday loan industry has made sure Alabama lawmakers are swimming in dirty cash and consistently stifling reform.
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Vanquish the Predators: Here's Why the Post Office Should Also Be A Bank
Postal unions, civil rights groups, advocacy organizations – even presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and the USPS Inspector General – are pushing the Post Office to expand into banking, so why is it pushing back?
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Postal Banks Are People’s Banks: 6 Things You Need To Know About Postal Banking
Postal banking isn’t about creating a free-money utopia – it's about retaining control of public spaces, implementing public services there, and serving working people financially.
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Bernie Sanders's Highly Sensible Plan to Turn Post Offices Into Banks
Postal banking is common worldwide, and is a good way to reach people who don't have access to standard savings accounts.
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Time for Postal Banking Is Now
Postal banking represents a national, nonprofit public option to the private, for-profit banking system – and a solution for the one in four Americans who are underbanked.
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Financial Reform Coalition Demands U.S. Postal Banking "Public Option"
The newly launched organization Commonomics USA is among 15 groups calling for the U.S. Postal Service to initiate low-cost financial services to end "prey-day" lending.
