Scraping By In The Gig Economy As A Guy Without A Bank Account • Discoverology

Scraping By In The Gig Economy As A Guy Without A Bank Account

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In 2017, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) found that 8.4 million households in the U.S. were without bank accounts. Nearly 53 percent of these households listed “not having enough money” to put into an account as the reason why, while another 30 percent cited not trusting banks.

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