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Terri Friedline

Dr. Terri Friedline is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. She has published extensively on banks and the financial system. Her most recent works include mapping the locations of banks, credit unions, and payday lenders nationwide, interviewing bank employees about the organizational contexts that shape customers' experiences, and interviewing women about their debts. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions, a Research Fellow at New America in Washington, DC, and a member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Academic Research Council. She can be reached for comment at tfriedli@umich.edu or followed on twitter @TerriFriedline.

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Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million in US without access to a credit union or community bank

Jul. 8, 2021 2:44 pm

Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million in US without access to a credit union or community bank

The lack of affordable banking creates real hardships that disproportionately hurt low-income Americans and communities of color, say guest columnists Terri Friedline and Ameya Pawar.