Broke, USA : from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. : how the working poor became big business
Summary
"A unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries--the business of poverty"--Provided by publisher. Full description
- Prologue, Tommy's angel
- Check cashers of the world unite
- The birth of the predatory lender
- Going big
- Confessions of a subprime lender
- Freddie Rogers
- The great payday land rush
- Subprime city
- An appetitive for subprime
- No experience necessary
- Same old faces
- The great what-if
- Public enemy number one
- Past due
- Maximizing share of wallet
- Payday, the sequel
- Dayton after dark
- Borrowed time