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Broke, USA
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Artikel-Nr:
9780061733208
Veröffentl:
2011
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.06.2011
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Gary Rivlin
Gewicht:
463 g
Format:
203x133x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.