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David Scott: “If they did it for the slaves coming out of the Civil War, 4.5 million, surely, we can do it to really solve the problem…”

On the recordOctober 21, 2019
If they did it for the slaves coming out of the Civil War, 4.5 million, surely, we can do it to really solve the problem of getting to 58 million underbanked.
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David Scott
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Drawing a historical parallel to advocate for addressing the unbanked issue.

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