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January 21, 2016
Checking accounts are the most widely used financial product in the country. Yet poorly regulated bank overdraft practices continue to cause consumers to unknowingly incur multiple costly fees for a single transaction. Pew is promoting new rules to make overdraft programs safer and more transparent.
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