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Tag: Broke Usa: From Pawnshops To Poverty

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Preying on the Poor

By Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch —

The poor provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them. The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.