The Post Office Banks on the Poor

The Post Office Banks on the Poor:

By MEHRSA BARADARAN, nytimes.com

ATHENS, Ga. — PEO­PLE like to com­plain about banks pop­ping up like Star­bucks on every cor­ner these days. But in poor neigh­bor­hoods, the phe­nom­e­non is quite the oppo­site: Over the past cou­ple of decades, the banks have pulled…