Treasury plans to measure lending

Courtesy Marketplace  Tue, 01/13/2009 - 13:20

The Treasury Department has invested billions of dollars in bailout money to more than 250 banks. Today it opened up the bailout money to 3,000 small community banks.

Now the Treasury plans to compare lending levels between banks that got government money and those that didn't.

But will it work? Steve Henn reports.

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