Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor
Available from The New Press. Order now.
Praise for Poverty for Profit:
“A searing, rage-inducing look at how the misery of the poor lines the pockets of the rich.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“…an electrifying unmasking of appalling violations of public trust.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
“Kim delves into the behind-the-scenes happenings . . . like bail bondsmen organizing to oppose bail reform and private companies donating to political campaigns to defeat regulations. . . . Readers will be intrigued by this well-researched book.”
—BOOKLIST (starred review)
“Poverty for Profit is a terrific addition to any reading list for those interested in social justice and reform.”
—SHELF AWARENESS
“Anne Kim’s book is a tour de force, showing in painstaking detail
the myriad ways that corporations—many of them ostensibly
with a mission to tackle poverty and to manage state and federal
antipoverty efforts—exploit America’s poor. Read this book and weep, and then demand action from legislators to end the systemic incentives for legalized highway robbery against individuals and families already living
on—or in many cases beyond—the economic margins.”
—SASHA ABRAMSKY, author of The American Way of Poverty:
How the Other Half Still Lives
“The billions of dollars the government has spent to reduce poverty in our nation is vital, but it could be even more effective if our privatized public sector were not diverting those funds to corporations and the wealthy. Anne Kim’s compelling Poverty for Profit exposes this troubling reality and proposes policy alternatives. A must-read.”
—PETER EDELMAN, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law
and Public Policy, Georgetown Law Center, and author of
So Rich, So Poor and Not A Crime to Be Poor
“From Job Corps franchises and for-profit schools to private prisons, profiteering landlords, and Medicaid mills, Anne Kim explores a corporatized American safety net, where social service contractors reap billions while shortchanging taxpayers—and the vulnerable Americans they are entrusted with training, educating, incarcerating, housing and healing. Through Anne Kim’s own reporting and decades worth of data, Poverty for Profit powerfully lays out a case for accountability and a renewed embrace of oversight and governance for America’s safety net programs.”
—MARY OTTO, author of Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Anne Kim 