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{{short description|Businesses that make most of their money from the poor}}
The terms '''poverty industry''' or '''poverty business''' refer to a wide range of money-making activities that attract a large portion of their business from the [[poverty|poor]]
In poorer countries, the poverty industry exploits the [[bottom of the pyramid]] and its extent can at times be used as a litmus test to assess the effectiveness of
==See also==
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*{{annotated link|Ghetto tax}}
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*[[Predatory lending]]▼
*{{annotated link|Pay-to-stay (imprisonment)}}
*[[Working poor]]▼
*[[Wage slavery]]▼
*{{annotated link|Poverty industrial complex}}
==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |editor-last=Hudson |editor-first=Michael |others=Introduction by Maxine Waters |date=1993 |title=Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits From Poverty |publisher=Common Courage Press |isbn=978-1567510829 |url=http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=082 |
*{{cite book |last=Caskey |first=John P. |date=1996 |title=Fringe Banking: Check-Cashing Outlets, Pawnshops and the Poor |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn=978-0-87154-180-2 |url=https://www.russellsage.org/publications/fringe-banking |
*{{cite book |last=Hatcher |first=Daniel L. |year=2016 |title=The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-7472-9 |url=https://nyupress.org/books/9781479874729/}}
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[[Category:Industries (economics)]]
[[Category:Poverty|Industry]]
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