Topic

Banking

Who controls the systems that hold and move money — and who gets left out.

Episodes

Marcus Williams — Director of Financial Equity, National Consumer Law Center

An estimated 5.9 million U.S. households have no bank account. We examine why, who bears the cost, and what policy can do.

Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University

Credit scoring was designed to remove human bias from lending decisions. Instead, it encoded structural inequality into an algorithm.