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The Poverty Industry - The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Hardcover)
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The Poverty Industry - The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Hardcover)
Series: Families, Law, and Society
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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.
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