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When bank closures force you into expensive alternatives

My small town's only bank branch closed and now I have to cash my paychecks at a grocery store that charges me five dollars each time, which feels like a tax on being poor.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The retreat of traditional banking from economically marginal areas creates financial deserts where basic services become luxury expenses.

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