Gary Rivlin

Broke, USA (eBook, ePUB)

From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries-the business of poverty.

"[A] thorough and thoughtful piece of reporting. . . . It should be required reading for legislators and lenders across the land." - Bloomberg News

For most people, the Great Crash of 2008 has meant troubling times. Not so for those in the flourishing poverty industry. These mercenary entrepreneurs have taken advantage of an era of deregulation to devise high-priced products to sell to the credit-hungry working poor, including the instant tax refund and the payday loan. In the process they've created an industry larger than the casino business and have proved that pawnbrokers and check cashers, if they dream big enough, can grow very rich off those with thin wallets.

Broke, USA is Gary Rivlin's riveting report from the economic fringes. Timely, shocking, and powerful, it offers a much-needed look at why our country is in a financial mess and gives a voice to the millions of ordinary Americans left devastated in the wake of the economic collapse.

"Rivlin strives to portray the people behind Poverty Inc. in a fair light . . .but his sympathy and the reader's steadily evaporate with his well-chosen tales of the industry's coercive tactics and its leaders' astonishing wealth. . . . Rivlin is the consummate tour guide, quick with a memorable anecdote or telling statistic." - New York Times Book Review

"[An] incisive, important new exposé, Broke, USA . . .is enraging, but Rivlin's work also is scrupulously fair." - Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins e-books
• Seitenzahl: 373
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061997945
• Artikelnr.: 38003667

Autorenporträt

Gary Rivlin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and the author of nine books, including Katrina: After the Flood. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Fortune, GQ, and Wired, among other publications. He is a two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner and former reporter for the New York Times. He lives in New York with his wife, theater director Daisy Walker, and two sons.