I was heartened by the Fed's recent announcement that it will finally create its own real-time payment system which will help low-income families save billions of dollars each year in overdraft fees and exploitive check cashing and payday lending costs.
Schakowsky expresses support for the Fed's new payment system to aid low-income families.
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