The credit union motto is “people helping people.” Yet credit unions, like big banks, collect billions of dollars through excessive overdraft fees — and the Trump administration just made it easier for them to do so.

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    12 days ago

    Credit unions are non-profit orgs. That’s not to say they don’t also give outrageous salaries to executives, but they don’t answer to a board of investors.

    This is why they generally have few, or lower, fees. They aren’t profit driven, as an entity, like a corporation is.