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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

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The teams at FinTech startup LendUp and Oakland-based Beneficial State Bank think very differently about that relationship. Millennials , she noted, tend to enter the credit system with a bang once they start having families. Banking is not working for a lot of people, and there is not a lot of trust there,” said Orloff. percent to 29.99

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California Dreamin’ (Of A Higher Minimum Wage)

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The $15 hourly minimum wage would be the highest in the nation, and the proposal represents a potential game-changer in the battle to raise the federal minimum wage, which currently stands at $7.25 an hour on Jan. 1, 2017, then to $11 an hour one year later and will see annual increases of $1 until reaching $15 an hour on Jan.