Banks and credit unions offer government workers loans amid shutdown

January 25th, 20190 A month into the partial government shutdown, tens of thousands of government workers are relying on special programs from banks and credit unions to stay financially solvent. Senior Vice President Tynika Wilson of Navy Federal Credit Union said about 16,000 federal workers – including many workers for the Coast Guard and Department...

Should banks be raising the citizenship question?

August 20th, 20180 Why are banks asking about your citizenship? Candidate Donald Trump rode his anti-immigrant rhetoric straight to the White House. Since then, he’s banned people from heavily Muslim-populated countries, taken children from their parents upon arrival at the Mexico border, is attempting to make citizenship status a  question on the...