The Poverty Industry : : The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens / / Daniel L. Hatcher.
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 bene...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Families, Law, and Society ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. How the Poverty Industry Is Siphoning Aid from the Vulnerable
- 1. Agency Purpose versus Agency Self- Interest: Conflict in Serving the Vulnerable
- 2. Poverty’s Iron Triangle
- Part II. Examples of Using the Vulnerable as a Revenue Source
- 3. Mining Foster Children for Revenue
- 4. Medicaid Money Laundering
- 5. Cost Recovery: Poverty Industry Taking Child Support from Children and Families
- Part III. Looking Forward, and Reclaiming the Safety Net
- 6. The Expanding Web of the Poverty Industry
- 7. Reeling In the Poverty Industry: Restoring Agency Purpose, and Restoring Fiscal Integrity to the Safety Net
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author