Web News Article #: 006-2016 01/12/2016 – On Jan. 18, the APWU will join the nation to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who dedicated his life to the fight for racial and economic justice. The civil rights movement and the labor movement continue to draw inspiration from the battles he led. Click here to…
January 12, 2016 It is easy to overlook the problem of the unbanked and underbanked in the United States â if for no other reason than it is far from the endemic problem here that it is in other parts of the world. However, depending upon the exact data set one is using, a full…
Web News Article #: 002-2016 01/06/2016 – In a speech given just blocks from Wall Street, Sen. Bernie Sanders promised to implement postal banking as one of the ways to fix the countryâs broken and corrupt financial system. âIf elected president, I will rein in Wall Street so they canât crash our economy again,â Sanders…
By Steven Kull – November 22, 2015 There is a financial crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service. In fiscal 2015, it lost $5.1 billion, even though its revenues were up. Yet, as dire as its financial picture may be, Congress has done little to fix the Postal Service. So what would ordinary Americans say should…
Published on Nov 4, 2015 Tonightâs Rumble discusses the ruling in Mexico saying that smoking marijuana is constitutional, how Republicans are trying to deregulate Wall Street via the Highway Bill, and Bernieâs plan to transform the Post Office while helping poor Americans (starts at 19:24). In tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses the latest wedge issue…
Web News Article #: 201-2015 10/22/2015 – Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made a strong case for postal banking while appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show on Oct. 21. [Watch an excerpt here, beginning at approximately 18:00.] âWe have millions and millions of low-income people who have to go to these payday lenders…
By David Cohen You wouldnât hand your laptop to a hacker, right? Well, the Senate could make a move just as foolish. Theyâll soon vote on nominations to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, which include a longtime advocate for postal service privatization and a lobbyist for the payday lending industry. The internet…
Published on Oct 9, 2015 In honor of Harvard University Press’ release of Associate Professor Mehrsa Baradaran’s book How the Other Half Banks, there was a breakfast discussion on America’s banking system that featured: Simon Johnson, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Lisa Donner, the executive director of Americans for Financial Reform; David…
