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 »

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Linda Raiteri
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by Linda Raiteri - Oct. 1, 2008

I'm suspecting that most of the people who read Business Week don't know the breadth of the minefield the working poor have to walk through in 2007. Nor do they know who benefits, short-term, by keeping people in poverty. The story is a reality check.

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