When the old (farmers markets) meets the new (electronic commerce) something has to give. Recently, a major supplier of mobile EBT technology (which allows farmers markets to accept SNAP EBT cards as a payment for for food covered by the SNAP program informed the federal government that it will no longer...

The Relationship between Local Community Banking and Small Business LendingThe Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has recently published a working paper on the importance of local community banks to small business lending.The paper looks at the effect that a reduction in community banking can have...