https://leftfootforward.org/2013/12/the-unbanked-are-increasingly-excluded-from-mainstream-society/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Tue, 17 Dec 2013 23:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2013/12/the-unbanked-are-increasingly-excluded-from-mainstream-society/#comment-228480 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 23:05:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=77549#comment-228480 The poor are increasingly excluded from mainstream society.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2013/12/the-unbanked-are-increasingly-excluded-from-mainstream-society/#comment-228434 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:25:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=77549#comment-228434 This plays alongside the even greater number who are not Internet connected. This excludes them not only from banking facilities but access to lower cost options for buying goods and services or even, in the wonderful world of IDS, to social security. We are trialling publicly accessible Internet Info screens in Eastbourne to reach out to excluded consumers but there is a long way to go to reach people who are isolated by a raft of factors: economic deprivation, disability, solitude, technophobia.

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