>> professor lisa servon talks about untraditional banking in her book "the unbanking of america." she worked as a teller and observes how the new methods are serving consumers. she is interviewed by rohit chopra. >> welcome to booktv. my name is rohit chopra. i will be talking to professor lisa servon the author of "the unbanking of america: how the new middle class survives" which was just released this month. lisa, thank you for being here. let's start. why did you write the book? who is it actually written for? >> guest: that is a great question. i wrote the bock in a nutshell because i could not understand originally why if alternative financial services like check cashi cashiers and payday lenders were oh bad why so many were using them. i learned banks were not serving the middle class and the low end and i realized there were good alternatives coming on and i wanted to tell the story. it is the first book i have written that is not an academic book. i wrote it for policymakers people working in the financial industry and people like you and me who may or may not be happy th

. >> professor lisa servon talks about untraditional banking in her book "the unbanking of america." she worked as a teller and observes how the new methods are serving consumers. she is interviewed by rohit chopra. >> welcome to booktv. my name is rohit chopra. i will be talking to professor lisa servon the author of "the unbanking of america: how the new middle class survives" which was just released this month. lisa, thank you for being here. let's start. why did you write the book? who is it actually written for? >> guest: that is a great question. i wrote the bock in a nutshell because i could not understand originally why if alternative

in the coming weeks on "after words," lisa servon will report on america's bank and credit system and how it affects the general public. rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse will offer his thoughts on how legislative decisions are influenced by private business. charles campici will describe his work investigating corruption in the police force, and this weekend sylvia tara discusses how our bodies react to fat. >> it's actually an endocrine organ meaning it actually releases hormones that our body depends on. so, amazingly, our brain size is linked the fat. there are people who have a defective fat, a genetic defect in their fat, and there are parts of their brain that are smaller. our bone strength is linked to at the. our reproductive systems are linked to fat. if women get too below the level, they can't men institute regularly -- menstruate regularly. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. you can watch all previous "after words" program ares on our web site, booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction b

today i will be talking to professor lisa servon from university of pennsylvania and author of unblinking of america that was just released this month. >> thanks for having me. >> host: why did you write the book was written for? >> guest: i rode it because i could not understand originally why alternative financial-services like payday lenders why so many people were using them in the course of my research i learned that banks were not serving the low-end and i also realize there were some good alternatives coming on board part of the first book i have written that is not academic eroded for the policymakers, those working for financial-services industry and you and me that may not be happy with the financial-services they're currently using. >> host: what do mean by alternative financial service providers blacks what is that and why is it called alternative? >> guest: ic consumer financial-services industry into three components one is a mainstream component the second is alternative checked cashier's or payday lenders or pawnshops' or read to own and they are growing as consumer financ

today i will be talking to lisa servon, professor of regional planning at the university of pennsylvania, and the author of "the unbanking of america how the new middle class survived" which was just released this month. >> host: but start why did you write this book and who is actually written for? >> guest: that is a great question. i wrote the book in a nutshell because i couldn't understand originally why if the alternative financial services like check cashers and payday lenders were so bad for people why so many people were using them and in the course of my research that took a few years, i learned banks were not really serving the low and increasingly the middle class and i also realized there were some good alternatives coming on board so i wanted to tell the whole story. it's the first boo book i pretet isn't an academic book meaning is accessible for a wider audience. it's for a policymaker, for people working in the financial services industry and also for people like you and me who may or may not be happy with their financial services they are currently using. >> let's talk

. >> sunday night on afterwards, university of pennsylvania professor lisa servon talks about traditional banking in her boom "the unbanking of america". >> i wrote the book in a nutshell because i could not understand originally why, if alternative financial services like check cashers and payday lenders were so bad for people, why so many people were using them. and in the course of my research which took a few years, i learned that banks weren't really serving the low and increasingly the middle class. and i also realized that there were good alternatives coming on board so i kind of wanted to tell that whole story. >> watch afterwards sunday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span 2's book tv. senator john barrasso gave remarks on funding challenges. he talked to the association of american highway and transportation officials in washington, d.c. for just under 10 minutes. >> all right, i'm honored to introduce committee chairman john

sunday night on "afterwards," university of pennsylvania professor lisa servon.rote the book, and a nutshell, because i could not whyrstand, originally, alternative financial services like payday lenders were so bad usingople yet people were them. in the course of my research, which took a few years, i were nothat banks really serving the low and increasingly middle-class. i also realized there were some good alternatives coming on board. i wanted to tell that whole story. onwatch "after words" c-span's book tv. up next on american history tv, three former members of the reagan administration reflect on their time in the white house and their interactions with the president. they discussed reagan's leadership style and legacy while arguing that the media underestimated him. thelements center for national security at the university of texas at austin hosted this. it was part of a three-day conference titled "ronald reagan and the transformation of global politics in the 1980s." this is about an hour and 40 minutes. exec. director inboden: for the william my name i