More than 7 million households lacked bank, credit union accounts in 2019: FDIC

Roughly 7.1 million U.S households did not have an account with a bank or credit union in 2019, according to a report released Monday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)Last year, 5.4 percent of the U.S. was “unbanked,” the FDIC reported in its biannual survey of how American households interact with the financial system. The unbanked rate fell 1.1 percentage points from 2017 and has declined in every survey conducted since 2011.The…