The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.
The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
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G 2017/678
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English
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xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
We're all underbanked -- Where everybody knows your name -- Bankonomics, or How banking changed and most of us lost out -- The new middle class -- The credit trap : "bad debt" and real life -- Payday loans : making the best of poor options -- Living in the minus : the millennial perspective -- Borro...
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.
"An urgent, absorbing exposé--why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did. What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student have in common? All three are victims of our dysfunctional...
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The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-240) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/678
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74VKV7m2wAJy
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ISBN
9780544602311 (hardcover)
0544602315 (hardcover)
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332.10973
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991024063859802626