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Mehrsa Baradaran

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in Orumieh, Iran

April 03, 1978

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Mehrsa Baradaran is Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law and a celebrated authority on banking law. In addition to the prizewinning The Color of Money, she is author of How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy. She has advised US senators and representatives on policy and spoken at national and international forums including the World Bank.

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Average rating: 4.39 · 3,118 ratings · 535 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 4.47 avg rating — 2,317 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy 4.10 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America 4.43 avg rating — 159 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racism in America: A Reader by Annette Gordon-Reed (Foreword), Toni Morrison (Contributor), Walter Johnson (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Kids Book About Banking by Mehrsa Baradaran, Rick Delucco (Goodreads Author) (Designer), Jennifer Goldstein (Editor) 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History (A Norton Short) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“In fact, the average unbanked family with an annual income of around $25,000 spends about $2,400 per year, almost 10 percent of its income, on financial transactions.”
― Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

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“Most significantly, the act exempted credit unions from the Community Reinvestment Act, an act aimed at providing banking access to low-income individuals.54 The exemption resulted directly from credit union lobbying. To repeat, the credit union industry, created to serve the poor, now fought against a law requiring it to serve the poor.”
― Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

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“The Freedman’s Savings Bank serves as a cautionary tale for government support of banking for the poor when that support is just a façade. Draping a flag over a building and then installing private profit-motivated management inside is the most dangerous sort of government support. It induces trust in a vulnerable customer base that not only suffers from financial loss, but also loses all faith in public institutions. It poisons true government efforts to help. A similar phenomenon was at the heart of the failure of the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the recent financial”
― Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

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