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Ayanna Pressley: For my constituents and the estimated one in five people across America who are unbanked or underbanked, lack of access…

On the recordJuly 20, 2021
For my constituents and the estimated one in five people across America who are unbanked or underbanked, lack of access and fractured trust with financial institutions is incredibly expensive.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley highlights the financial struggles of unbanked communities due to lack of access to banking services.

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