Mehrsa Baradaran

Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and the author of How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy.

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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