Donald Cohen is the founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, a national research policy center that studies public goods and services. He is co-author (with Allen Mikaelian) of The Privatization of Everything (The New Press), to be released in November 2021.
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Postal Banking Is Finally a Reality in (Some of) the United States
A pilot postal banking program has been implemented in a number of U.S. cities. Next, let’s rapidly expand it—and take it nationwide.
Donald Cohen