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BERNIE SANDERS’S HIGHLY SENSIBLE PLAN TO TURN POST OFFICES INTO BANKS THEY’RE MUCH LESS CRAZY THAN PAYDAY-LENDING SERVICES, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD AGREES.
By Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, October 20, 2015 In an interview with Fusion’s Felix Salmon the day after last week’s Democratic debate and published…
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NALC responds to Brookings paper on USPS
National Association of Letter Carriers, October 19, 2015 A study published by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, DC-based think tank, absurdly calls for Congress to…
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5 TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR TONIGHT’S DEMOCRATIC DEBATE
John Nichols, The Nation, Oct. 13, 2015. The first Democratic debate of the 2016 campaign is coming too late—more than two months after the…
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HOW THE OTHER HALF BANKS,’ BY MEHRSA BARADARAN
Nancy Folbre, New York Times. Oct 6, 2015. In 1890 the journalist Jacob Riis published “How the Other Half Lives,” a powerful indictment of the…
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Public Postal Service is Essential to Democracy
By Donald Cohen, In the Public Interest, October 2015 You wouldn’t hand your laptop to a hacker, right? Well, the Senate could make a…
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Don’t Put Privatizer And Payday Lender Lobbyist On The USPS Board
By Dave Johnson, fellow at Campaign for America’s Future. Originally appeared on CAF’s blog. With corporate-conservative calls for full or partial privatization of the United…
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Warning: Another Attack On Our Postal Service
By Dave Johnson, Fellow at Campaign for America’s Future Should we run our country for the benefit of We the People, or so that…
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Post Office can’t even meet its own lower standards as late mail soars
By Lisa Rein. Originally published in The Washington Post, August 26, 2015. Amid a significant downsizing of the money-strapped U.S. Postal Service, the number…
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A Grand Alliance delegation meets with Postmaster General
On August 13, a delegation representing six signatories to A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service met with the Postmaster General, Megan Brennan…
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Moving beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ about the U.S. Postal Service
By Fredric Rolando. Originally appeared in The Washington Examiner. Though the U.S. Postal Service is older than the country itself, delivers to 153 million homes…
