• KevonLooney
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    8 months ago

    Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It’s in your own article.

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      8 months ago

      The article says the 1974 law concerns credit applications, not bank accounts

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      8 months ago

      Except it was effectively true,

      Only in the same way it was true that men couldn’t vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn’t have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.