The Poverty Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poverty Industry write by Daniel L. Hatcher. This book was released on 2016-06-21. The Poverty Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Hatcher [posits that] state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America's most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue"--
The Poverty Industry
The Poverty Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poverty Industry write by Daniel L Hatcher. This book was released on 2014-10-24. The Poverty Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How funds for the needy are siphoned off for profit: “A distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars.” ―Boston Review Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities’ federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor’s prisons. In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher shows us how state governments and their private-industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America’s most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue and stealing billions. As policy experts across the political spectrum debate how to best structure government assistance programs, a massive siphoning of the safety net is occurring behind the scenes. In the face of these abuses of power, Hatcher offers a road map for reforms to realign the practices of human service agencies with their intended purpose, to prevent the misuse of taxpayer dollars—and ensure that aid truly reaches those in need. “Meticulously researched . . . lifts the lid on a system that rather than helping the needy, systematically turns them into ‘a source of revenue.’” ―The Guardian “Walks through the evolution of legal doctrine regarding rights of vulnerable persons [and] provides compelling evidence that scholars, policymakers, and advocates should take a closer look at the political and business relationships shaping contracting decisions involving for-profit firms.” ―Political Science Quarterly
Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry
Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry write by Susanne Soederberg. This book was released on 2014-09-19. Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-winner-announced/ Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor –in both the global North and global South –has become a highly lucrative and rapidly expanding industry since the 1990s. A key inquiry of this book is what is ‘the financial’ in which the poor are asked to join. Instead of embracing the mainstream position that financial inclusion is a natural, inevitable and mutually beneficial arrangement, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry suggests that the structural violence inherent to neoliberalism and credit-led accumulation have created and normalized a reality in which the working poor can no longer afford to live without expensive credit. The book further transcends economic treatments of credit and debt by revealing how the poverty industry is extricably linked to the social power of money, the paradoxes in credit-led accumulation, and ‘debtfarism’. The latter refers to rhetorical and regulatory forms of governance that mediate and facilitate the expansion of the poverty industry and the reliance of the poor on credit to augment/replace their wages. Through a historically grounded analysis, the author examines various dimensions of the poverty industry ranging from the credit card, payday loan, and student loan industries in the United States to micro-lending and low-income housing finance industries in Mexico. Providing a much-needed theorization of the politics of debt, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry has wider implications of the increasing dependence of the poor on consumer credit across the globe, this book will be of very strong interest to students and scholars of Global Political Economy, Finance, Development Studies, Geography, Law, History, and Sociology. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315761954, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lU6PHjyOzU
The Poverty Industry
The Poverty Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poverty Industry write by Daniel L. Hatcher. This book was released on 2019-01-08. The Poverty Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities’ federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor’s prisons. In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher shows us how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America’s most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue. The poverty industry is stealing billions in federal aid and other funds from impoverished families, abused and neglected children, and the disabled and elderly poor. As policy experts across the political spectrum debate how to best structure government assistance programs, a massive siphoning of the safety net is occurring behind the scenes. In the face of these abuses of power, Hatcher offers a road map for reforms to realign the practices of human service agencies with their intended purpose and to prevent the misuse of public taxpayer dollars. With more Americans than ever before seeking unemployment benefits, it is essential to remedy the nefarious practices that will impede them from receiving the full government support they are due. The Poverty Industry shows us the path to rectify this systemic inequality to ensure that government aid truly gets to those in need.
Lords of Poverty
Lords of Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lords of Poverty write by Graham Hancock. This book was released on 1989. Lords of Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "First published in Great Britain in 1989 by Macmillan London Limited"--T.p. verso. Bibliography: p. 195-226.
