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Broke, USA :

Rivlin, Gary.

Broke, USA : from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.--how the working poor became big business / Gary Rivlin. - 1st Harper pbk. [ed.]. - New York : Harper, 2011, c2010. - 358 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Harper Business, c2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presents an exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries, the business of poverty, which exploits the country's poor through such ventures as subprime loans, pawn shops, check-cashing businesses, and payday loans.

9780061733208 (pbk.)

bl2013027158


Working poor--United States.
Poverty--United States.


United States--Economic conditions--21st century.

HD8072.5 / .R58 2011

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