DiscoverThe Next Big Idea DailyHow Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor
How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

Update: 2024-09-26
Share

Description

The federal government spends around $900 billion a year on programs that are supposed to help poor Americans. Why does so much of that money end up in the pockets of private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor? Journalist Anne Kim reports on the “corporate poverty complex” in her new book "Poverty for Profit."

📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Comments 
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

Next Big Idea Club