Thursday, November 3, 2011

How Banks Take a Big Bite Out of Government Benefits » New Deal 2.0

How Banks Take a Big Bite Out of Government Benefits » New Deal 2.0
It’s obvious that in a sour economy like ours, usage of programs like unemployment benefits, food stamps, and cash assistance will skyrocket. It used to be that most of these programs distributed actual money to beneficiaries. Food stamps were quite literally stamps. These days, however, things have been ‘modernized’ so that many benefits come through prepaid debit cards administered by banks like JP Morgan, Bank of America, and other behemoths.

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