Supervisor Vallie Brown, the driving force behind the cashless store ban, said she was responding to complaints from some of her African-American constituents who said they were being marginalized.
"For them not to be able to go and give cash, I thought was really discrimination and an equity issue," Brown said.
The problem isn't limited to San Francisco.
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), 8.5 million Americans are "unbanked" — the term used for people who don't have bank accounts — many of them minorities and seniors.
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"For them not to be able to go and give cash, I thought was really discrimination and an equity issue," Brown said.
The problem isn't limited to San Francisco.
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), 8.5 million Americans are "unbanked" — the term used for people who don't have bank accounts — many of them minorities and seniors.
Read more
Cashless society: lessons from Sweden
