The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives - Paperback

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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives - Paperback

Name: The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives - Paperback
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by Lisa Servon

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by Lisa Servon (Author)

"[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenching. A significant contribution."--American Prospect

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 mainstream bank and credit system. Nearly half of all Americans live from paycheck to paycheck, and income volatility has doubled over the past thirty years. Banks, with their high monthly fees and overdraft charges, are gouging their lower- and middle-income customers while serving only the wealthiest Americans.
Lisa Servon delivers a stunning indictment of America's banks, together with eye-opening dispatches from inside a range of banking alternatives that have sprung up to fill the void. She works as a teller at RiteCheck, a check-cashing business in the South Bronx, and as a payday lender in Oakland. She looks closely at the workings of a tanda, an informal lending club. And she delivers engaging, hopeful portraits of the entrepreneurs reacting to the unbanking of America by designing systems to creatively serve many of us.

Author Biography

LISA SERVON is a 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, The New Yorker online, and elsewhere.

Number of Pages: 272

Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN

Publication Date: February 13, 2018

ISBN	9781328745705
Author	Lisa Servon
Publisher	Mariner Books
Genre	Education and Business
Format	Paperback
Published	February 2018
Language	ENG- English
Pages	272
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print