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Richard Fiesta, Letter to Editor, Washington Post, April 6, 2015 Charles Lane asked the right question in his April 2 op-ed, “Can the post office be a bank?” He just got the answer wrong. [...]

David Dayen, Salon, January 20, 2015 Lower-income Americans have been under-banked and abandoned. Now a progressive movement is fighting back (Updated) PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein [...]

Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Labor, January 22, 2015 Nearly 17 million American adults live in households where no one has a checking account; more than 50 million more have a checking account, but [...]

John Nichols, The Nation, February 11, 2014 PHOTO: Senator Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Senator Elizabeth Warren points out that reviving this old institution would provide basic [...]

Mehrsa Baradaran, Harvard Law Review, February 24, 2014.  One of the biggest problems in banking today is the large and ever-increasing population of the unbanked — those who are not gaining the [...]

Senator Elizabeth Warren, Huffington Post, February 1, 2014. The poor pay more. According to a report put out this week by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Postal Service, [...]