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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

PYMNTS

Or sometimes, as is the case in rural Mississippi, the population is too sparse and thinly stretched to reasonably support stores that are accessed with anything but cars, despite the fact that 47 percent of the local population doesn’t own or have regular access to a car. SNAP online . Is there any way out of that?

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

PYMNTS

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

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Target Won’t Back Down On Bathroom Policy

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Target’s stance in favor of equality for transgendered consumers has sparked a backlash and online petition from the American Family Association. The Mississippi-based religious nonprofit is headed by First United Methodist pastor Donald E. The petition and its 1.2 The petition and its 1.2

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2021’s Best Community Banks to Work For

Independent Banker

Premium benefits packages, professional development and TLC during the pandemic—this year’s winners do everything in their power to keep their community bankers happy and fulfilled. We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example.

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Uber Of X: The Speed Stable, Motorcycles On-Demand

PYMNTS

With more than 100 users locked and loaded, the Mississippi-based company recently sped over to one of the largest motorcycle events — Barber Vintage Festival in Birmingham, Alabama — with more than 70,000 attendees, many of them learning (and getting excited) about The Speed Stable. Everything is done online via credit card.

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Major Medium of Exchange

Independent Banker

Debit and credit cards, direct deposits, paper checks, online and mobile bill payments and other technologies have changed the role of cash in our economy. We still have a high demand for cash,” says Tylynn Theis, vice president of Harvest Bank, a $130 million-asset community bank in Kimball, Minn. By Ed Avis.

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Hurricane Insurance: What is Covered & What is Not Covered

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When researching options for hurricane insurance, look for information online and then speak with your insurance representative or broker. Mississippi. According to the FEMA website, “Flood insurance is available to anyone living in one of the 23,000 participating NFIP communities.” Connecticut. Massachusetts.