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The Postal Public Option: How the USPS Can Rescue Desperate Payday Borrowers
Predatory financial services like Cash America are siphoning around $100 billion per year from the pockets of people who need the money most – giving urgency to the call for low-cost postal financial services.
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Why Banking at the Post Office Beats Payday Loans – and Wall Street
The USPS used to offer financial services – and proponents say that bringing them back could buffer us from financial meltdowns and alleviate poverty.
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America's Criminal Financiers: Still Unjailed and More Bloated Than Ever
Because of the Obama administration’s soft on crime approach to the bankers who became rich packaging fraudulent mortgages, the industry is still a cesspool of excess and greed.
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The Movement for American Banking Independence Starts With Postal Banks
Over a billion people around the world are free to bank at their neighborhood post office – yet we stand almost alone among developed countries in keeping 300 million Americans from doing likewise.
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U.S. Mayors Adopt Postal Banking Resolutions – $1 Trillion Boost at Zero Taxpayer Cost
By offering inexpensive financial services, the U.S. Post Office can drive out financial predators, restore billions of dollars to low-income neighborhoods and generate thousands of jobs funding infrastructure projects.
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The Postal service blows! Why it is losing to Wal-Mart and Google
Postal Service has long resisted offering banking services. Here's why they - and we - could live to regret it
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Mayors Nationwide Build Support for Postal Banking As USPS Delays Action
Our nation's mayors are acutely aware of the impact of predatory lending.
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Organized Labor, Public Banks and the Grassroots: Keys to a Worker-Owned Economy
Worker-owned cooperatives build economic democracy. But how do we build more worker-owned cooperatives?
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New Postal Union Alliance Forms to Defend U.S. Post Office Services
Finally, four major craft unions are banding together to fight to preserve the postal service.
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The Warren Proposal: Postal Banking Is Key Financial Reform In the Public Good
The postal financial services Senator Elizabeth Warren suggests are important first steps toward democratizing our economy.
