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Related: About this forumUS Mayors Adopt Postal Banking Resolutions
http://www.nationofchange.org/us-mayors-adopt-postal-banking-resolutions-1404230016
At its annual meeting last week, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) adopted a pair of resolutions endorsing postal banking, co-signed by eight mayors from six states. Their goal is to bring $1 trillion of job-creating economic stimulus primarily to low-income neighborhoods, over the next decade, at zero cost to taxpayers.
Post office-based financial services will generate sales tax revenues of as much as $3 billion a year, benefiting cities of the more than 200 mayors attending the USCM meeting, according to BankACT, a nonprofit organization advocating financial fairness via "public options" for banking and financial service.
In one resolution, the USCM calls upon the United States Postal Service (USPS) to offer basic financial services, such as small payday loans and reloadable money cards. Payday lenders and other financial predators target low-income working families and retirees at exorbitant cost, totaling nearly $100 billion a year, noted BankACT president Marc Armstrong.
By offering inexpensive financial services, Armstrong said, the USPS can help drive out financial predators, restoring billions of dollars to low-income neighborhoods at no cost to taxpayers.
The other USCM resolution urges the Postal Service to bring back once-popular postal savings accounts and use the deposits to help fund a national infrastructure bank. This specialized bank will reduce the high cost of financing public construction projects a boon to local governments, Armstrong added, that can generate thousands of jobs.
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US Mayors Adopt Postal Banking Resolutions (Original Post)
eridani
Jul 2014
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(50,983 posts)2. Kicked and recommended!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)4. Do it. Do it. Do it.
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meti57b
(3,584 posts)5. Great idea! Let's do it!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. K&R for the best post office news yet!!