Sacramento's mayor wants to pass an initiative to help poor people get bank accounts. It's apparently part of a state-wide push.

By opening checking or savings accounts, the mayor said, residents can save hundreds of dollars they might be spending by cashing checks at payday loan centers ( Read more... )

I figure the only people who will find this problem in ethics interesting are mmcirvin and a few of his readers, assuming they haven't seen it already in tomscud's LJ. But maybe vajrabot will like it, too.

Really, what I should be posting instead is a picture of a thing I bought at a thrift store yesterday, but I haven't gotten around to setting up the camera yet.