Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business - Rilegato

Rivlin, Gary

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ISBN 10: 0061733210 ISBN 13: 9780061733215

Casa editrice: Harperbusiness, 2010

Riassunto

Delivers a shocking look at the under-reported poverty industry, which aims to mine the thin wallets of the country's poor through such ventures as subprime loans, pawn shops, check-cashing businesses, instant tax refunds, payday loans and more. By the author of Drive By. 40,000 first printing.

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“[A] scathing, important book, Broke, USA... includes one shocking anecdote after another.” (—Joe Nocera, the New York Times)

“Mr. Rivlin brings to his subject a genuine gift for storytelling.” (—Wall Street Journal)

“Rivlin strives to portray the people behind Poverty Inc. in a fair light...but his sympathy and the reader’s steadily evaporate with his well-chosen tales of the industry’s coercive tactics and it’s leaders’ astonishing wealth....Rivlin is the consummate tour guide, quick with a memorable anecdote or telling statistic.” (—New York Times Book Review)

“An exhaustive exposé.” (—Washington Post)

“[Rivlin] offers a superb expose of the ‘poverty business’... A timely, important, and deeply disturbing look at the cycle of dept in the nation’s most vulnerable.” (—Publishers Weekly)

“[A] fascinating book.” (—Fortune)

“Gary Rivlin rivets readers.” (—Fast Company)

“[An] incisive, important new expose, Broke, USA...is enraging, but Rivlin’s work also is scrupulously fair.... [W]hat makes Broke, USA so readable is Rivlin’s skill at telling a complex story through engaging characters.” (—Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“This is a powerful analysis, detailing how the financial sector has come to its current state of crisis and including personal stories of some among the millions of working Americans who have been exploited along the way.” (—Booklist (starred review))

“To understand American finance, you need to understand Ace Cash Express as much as you need to understand Goldman Sachs. Which is why Gary Rivlin’s “Broke, USA” is a necessary companion.” (—Ezra Klein, Washington Post)

L'autore:

Gary Rivlin is the award-winning author of Fire on the Prairie; Drive By (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year); and The Plot to Get Bill Gates. A two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner, he has worked as a writer and reporter for the New York Times, Industry Standard, East Bay Express, and the Chicago Reader, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Salon, Newsweek, and Wired, among other publications.

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• Editore: Harperbusiness
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061733210
• ISBN 13: 9780061733215
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 358