The Move Your Money campaign was started by American college students who formed a campaign to encourage their universities to shift their financial investments out of corporate institutions and into local community banks. Similar campaigns are ongoing in US cities such as New York and Los Angeles.
More and more Americans are abandoning corporate banks and moving their financial business to local credit unions and banks. These local institutions stimulate business activity in communities by providing loans to local businesses and offer a non-profit ethos to shareholders, which are the customers.
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Get more info about the campaign at MoveYourMoney.info