Mehrsa Baradaran

Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at University of Cailfornia, Irvine, and author of The Color of Money and How the Other Half Banks.

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The U.S. Should Just Send Checks—But Won’t

America’s obsession with keeping aid from the undeserving is making a bad economic crisis worse.
- Mehrsa Baradaran
- April 9, 2020
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If the U.S. Government Treated Poor People as Well as It Treats Banks

A proposal: Transform underused post offices into public banks that would bail humans out of financial emergencies.
- Mehrsa Baradaran
- October 15, 2015