Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million Americans who don't have access to a credit union or community bank
- Written by: Terri Friedline, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
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The big idea
About a quarter of census tracts with a post office don’t have a community bank or credit union branch, suggesting postal...