By Evan McMorris-Santoro – April 19, 2018 President Trump has made the mail big news. After a Twitter rant about the Washington Post, Trump launched a presidential commission to look at the finances of the U.S. Postal Service and the deals it cuts with companies like Amazon, which, like the Post, is owned by Jeff…
October 24, 2017 AFL-CIO Convention Resolution 46 WHEREAS, the U.S. Post Office operated the Postal Savings System from 1911 through 1967 and, at its peak, had $3.4 billion in deposits; and WHEREAS, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Postal Service issued a report recommending that the Postal Service provide basic financial services…
Published on Mar 30, 2016 Today, 40 million Americans do not have access to basic financial services. In this talk, Mehrsa Baradaran, author of “How the Other Half Banks,” envisions a new take on an old banking system and a solution for America’s banking deserts. Mehrsa Baradaran has been is an associate professor at Georgia…
Gail Cornwall – February 28, 2016 As she watches a man with whom she publicly agrees on almost everything be anointed prince of progress, Hillary Clinton feels the burning desire to have her liberalism recognized. It’s an uphill battle, because she doesn’t appear to understand what it’s like to be a working-class American. Two words…
By Sheryl Nance-Nash – January 10, 2016 Maybe it’s time to put the United States Post Office back in the banking business. Until 1967, the USPS offered savings deposit accounts and even now you can get money orders and do international wire transfers. There’s a push by the Campaign for Postal Banking to get the…
Web News Article #: 231-2015 12/17/2015 – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) joined members of the Campaign for Postal Banking on Dec. 17 to make a special delivery to the biggest delivery organization of all – the U.S. Postal Service. Norton and a coalition of 29 consumer, labor and civic organizations – including the APWU…
APWU Postal Banking Campaign Coordinator Katherine Isaac joins us to talk about what is Postal Banking, and the opportunities it can bring to consumers. Source: Why the U.S. Needs Postal Banking, and How We Get It
Web News Article #: 228-2015 12/08/2015 – More than 150,000 people have signed a petition launched by the Campaign for Postal Banking urging Postmaster General Megan Brennan to implement postal banking in post offices across the country. Organizers plan to deliver the petitions this month. Have you signed? If not, there’s still time. Click here…
