Roughly 30 million U.S. citizens lack a bank account or have limited access to financial services. Banking fees, minimum account balances and other prohibitive policies have cut off nearly 10 percent of the public from services that most Americans take for granted. Changing the status quo is the goal of a new Occupy Wall Street project called the
Occupy Movement Soldiers On, Launches Collective Banking Enterprise
Organizers hope the Occupy Money Cooperative will extend financial services to populations who would otherwise be excluded.