Are predatory lenders and mercenary entrepreneurs fueling a “poverty industry” that can’t be overcome by working-class Americans? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Gary Rivlin, whose new book is “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. How the Working Poor Became Big Business” (Harper Business, 2010).
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