The latest episode of For The Movement—a U.S. podcast covering policy, social and civil rights issues affecting African Americans and communities of colour—discusses how a move towards cashless payments could widen the racial wealth gap and lock vulnerable people out of the new tech economy.
Co-host Clint Odom, Senior Vice President of Policy at the National Urban League, notes in his introduction that ‘the vulnerable—like low-income [people], African American and immigrant communities—[are] at risk of being collateral damage’ as the economy drives towards cashless transactions.
