Poor People With Checks

Poor People With Checks

What kind of people use check-cashing places? How do they work? Do such places contribute to inequality? And most important -- why are people paying for their own money? In their video "Checkmate," the Internets Celebrities, a.k.a. Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam, explore these questions and eventually, in their words, "make it rain."

Freakonomics 5/23/08 12:07 PM Freakonomics General inequality poverty Youtube