Banking the Underbanked: FDIC tries to reach out
under banked
The number is surprising in this electronic age of debit cards, online banking and e-commerce: 17 million adult Americans do not have a bank account. In total 25.6% of all households in the U.S. are “unbanked” or “underbanked” and those households are disproportionately low-income and minority. Patt covered this story a few weeks ago but now we’re back to the FDIC response to this story, and to see how private banks and the government can draw more Americans into everyday banking.
Guest:
Barbara Ryan, deputy vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Patt Morrison for December 15, 2009
- Villaraigosa, live from Copenhagen Climate Summit
- The French Elvis is in L.A., sans amour des Americains
- The Bush Administration’s inbox mystery: 22 million missing emails
- Banking the Underbanked: FDIC tries to reach out
- The personal toll of unemployment
- Medicaid children and access to antipsychotic drugs
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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