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The unbanking of America how the new middle class survives

Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.

Main Author: Servon, Lisa J. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
Subjects:
Banks and banking > United States.
Financial institutions > United States.
Summary: Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.
Physical Description: xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-240) and index.
ISBN: 0544602315
9780544602311
Author Notes: LISA SERVON is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and a former dean of the New School. Her work on consumer financial services has been published in the Wall Street Journal , the Atlantic online, and The New Yorker online, among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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