Where Have All the Bank Branches Gone? “Deja View All Over Again.” More than 3,000 bank branches have left rural towns and urban neighborhoods since the pandemic. NPR’s Scott Horsley, on Morning Edition (March 22) described the effects in the Southeast, where some towns have been left without a single bank to conduct their day-to-day business. […]
A Good Idea Comes Full Circle: The CDFI Fund and National Service
In a recent letter to the CDFI field, CDFI Fund Director Jodie Harris announced that the fund is “in the process of finalizing the details of a joint initiative between the CDFI Fund and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch a new Economic Mobility Corps. The Economic Mobility Corps will place national […]