This paper summarizes lessons from interviews of 22 consumers who use prepaid cards (PPCs), an emerging product in the market space between institution-based transaction accounts and non-account services like check-cashing and money orders. A majority of interviewees used PPCs as their primary...

Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Old Assumptions, New Realities - Marcia K. Meyers, Robert D. Plotnick, and Jennifer Romich -- Part I. Policies to Increase Economic Security in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 2. Working Families at Risk: Understanding and...