Poverty for Profit

How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor

By: Anne Kim

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor. Their business models depend on exploiting low-income Americans, and their political influence ensures a thriving set of industries where everyone profits except the poor, while United States taxpayers foot the bill.

In Poverty for Profit, veteran journalist Anne Kim investigates the multiple industries that infiltrate almost every aspect of the lives of the poor—health care, housing, criminal justice, and nutrition. She explains how these businesses are aided by public policies such as the wholesale privatization of government services and the political influence these industries wield over lawmakers and regulators.

Supported by original investigative reporting on the lesser-known players profiting from the antipoverty industry, Poverty for Profit adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of how structural inequality and structural racism function today.

©2024 Anne Kim (P)2025 Tantor Media

Accuracy! Exploitation Of Federal Funding Abuse And inequality of Less Fortunate And Minorities!

Waste, Fraud And Abuse! Systematic Murder As Only Option To Death Sometimes Quickly Sometimes Slowly But Dead Just The Same For Less Fortunate Of Life!Such inequality Waste, Fraud And Abuse And An Imbalance World Globally Death Seem More Appealing!