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How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy is a nonfiction policy and legal analysis by Mehrsa Baradaran that examines how the American banking system serves wealthy customers while leaving low-income communities with limited, expensive, and often predatory alternatives. Published in 2015, the book argues that modern banking is not simply a private market success story but a system shaped by public support, regulation, and historical choices. Baradaran shows how deregulation and industry consolidation helped create banking deserts and pushed many people toward payday lenders, check cashers, and other fringe financial services. The book is both a diagnosis of financial exclusion and a policy argument for postal banking as a practical public remedy. Its purpose is to explain why access to basic financial services matters for inequality, social mobility, and democratic participation.