Bernie Sanders’s Highly Sensible Plan to Turn Post Offices Into Banks
They’re much less crazy than payday-lending services, and the rest of the world agrees. By Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, October 20, 2015 In an interview with Fusion’s Felix Salmon the day after last...
View ArticleWhy We Should Be Talking About Russell Simmons’ RushCard Fiasco: Poor...
By Jamelle Bouie, Slate, October 20, 2015 According to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 17 million Americans are “unbanked”—they are without bank accounts—while 58 million are...
View ArticleRushCard’s Glitches Lock Out Thousands of Poor Americans From Their Paychecks
By Seung Lee, Newsweek, October 21, 2015 Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans were forced to pinch pennies for more than a week after RushCard, the popular prepaid debit card, faced widespread...
View ArticleBernie’s Brilliant Idea: Postal Banking
By Mike Leyba, United for a Fair Economy, Huffington Post, October 21, 2015 At the Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders famously suggested that the only way to fix our country was with a political...
View ArticleAPWU President Mark Dimondstein Talks Postal Banking on Ed Schultz Show
APWU President Mark Dimondstein discussed postal banking in an interview on the Ed Schultz show. “It’s another way that the Postal Service can fulfill its mission of weaving the people of the country...
View ArticleSanders Pushes Postal Banking
By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future, October 23, 2015 Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has once again added his voice to a growing movement to bring banking to the United...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Touts Postal Banking on Jimmy Kimmel
Check out Bernie Sanders on Jimmy Kimmel Live: Postal Banking “will help the Post Office and millions of low income people.” It follows a 30-second discussion of free college tuition.
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Bernie Sanders has a pretty revolutionary idea to change America’s post offices
By Max Ehrenfreund, Washington Post, Oct. 29, 2015. Americans don’t spend nearly as much time at post offices as they used to, but that’s not only because postcards are being replaced by Evites. For...
View ArticleShould the post office also be a bank?
By Joe Davidson, Federal Diary, Washington Post, October 29, 2015 After college, Sally Frank, of Dallas, fell on hard financial times. To help meet her hefty student loan payments and other bills, she...
View ArticleHow the US post office can save America—and itself
By Matt Phillips, Quartz, Nov 5., 2015.. Since the financial crisis, more than 4,800 bank branches have disappeared from the American retail landscape. But in many parts of America, the decline of...
View ArticleBernie Sanders has a plan to reinvent the post office. Hillary Clinton should...
By Paul Waldman, The Week, November 13, 2015 As a longshot candidate facing off in the primary against an opponent everyone still assumes will be the Democratic nominee, Bernie Sanders hasn’t gotten...
View ArticleThis Postal Banking Petition Is Important
By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future, November 13, 2015 Postal banking serves the public, not Wall Street. We the People could have postal banking right now if enough of us speak up and...
View ArticleFor America’s Unbanked: Re-establishing the Postal Savings Bank
By Ralph Nader, Huffington Post, November 13, 2015 Fact: Tens of millions of Americans do not have a bank account. As a result, many of these Americans spend a reported $89 billion annually in...
View ArticleThe Need for Postal Banking: Personal Stories
Why We Need Postal Banking December 17, 2015 Read below for compelling personal stories from all over the United States that show the predatory nature of pay day loans and the difficulty of using banks...
View ArticleWhy We Need Postal Banking: Statements from Leaders
Why We Need Postal Banking December 17, 2015 Tens of millions of seniors rely on the US Postal Service as one of the most trusted institutions in America. It’s the perfect fit to offer no-fee ATMs...
View ArticleCoalition to Deliver 150K Signatures to Postmaster General Brennan
Media Advisory For: Thursday, December 17, 2015 Contact: Lacy Crawford Jr., 202-637-3961, lcrawford@socialsecurityworks.org Katherine Isaac, 202 255-4615, info@campaignforpostalbanking.org...
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Citizens Deliver 150K Petitions Demanding Postal Banking
By Dave Johnson, Huffington Post, December 18, 2015 “The United States has two separate banking systems today – one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else,” – Prof. Mehrsa...
View ArticleCongresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Joins Coalition Leaders to Deliver More...
By Andrea Miller, People Demanding Action, December 17, 2015 This morning in DC more than 150,000 petitions were delivered to Deputy Postmaster General Ron Stroman by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes...
View ArticleCoalition calls for banking services at USPS
By Carten Cordell, The Federal Times, December 17, 2015 The Post Office is not generally where you go to get a paycheck cashed, but the Campaign for Postal Banking wants to change that. A coalition of...
View ArticleVideo: Coalition delivers 150,000 signatures demanding Postal Banking now!
Watch the video of our Dec. 17, 2015 delivery of more than 150,000 signatures demanding the USPS Postmaster General make postal banking a reality. We were joined by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes...
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