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Deborah Koff Ross: It is my understanding that the number of community banks that now exist is at the lowest number since prior to the…

On the recordMarch 20, 2017
It is my understanding that the number of community banks that now exist is at the lowest number since prior to the Great Depression in 1928.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

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Ross highlights the decline in community banks since the Great Depression.

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