Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.―How the Working Poor Became Big Business - Tapa blanda

Rivlin, Gary

 
9780061733208: Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.―How the Working Poor Became Big Business
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ISBN 10: 0061733202 ISBN 13: 9780061733208
Editorial: HarperBusiness, 2011

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Gary Rivlin is the author of Fire on the Prairie, Drive By (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and The Plot to Get Bill Gates. A two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner, he has been a reporter for the New York Times, Chicago Reader, and other publications, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Wired, and elsewhere.

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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.

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Editorial
HarperBusiness
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0061733202
ISBN 13 
9780061733208
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
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9780061733215: Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business

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ISBN 10:  0061733210 ISBN 13:  9780061733215
Editorial: Collins Business, 2010
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