The Poverty Business
Inside U.S. companies' audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation's working poor
Greater access to credit has put cars, computers, credit cards, and even homes within reach for many more of the working poor. But this remaking of the marketplace for low-income consumers has a dark side: Innovative and zealous firms have lured unsophisticated shoppers by the hundreds of thousands into a thicket of debt from which many never emerge Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
