TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hatcher,Daniel L.
TI  - The poverty industry: the exploitation of America's most vulnerable citizens 
T2  - Families, law, and society series
SN  - 9781479819188
AV  - HV95 .H38 2016eb
U1  - 361.973 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - University of South Alabama
KW  - gnd
KW  - Public welfare administration
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - United States
KW  - Poor
KW  - Services for
KW  - Human services
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Aide sociale
KW  - Administration
KW  - Pratiques déloyales
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Services
KW  - Services sociaux
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - 88.15 public services, public enterprises and quasi-public institutions
KW  - bcl
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Human Services
KW  - fast
KW  - Ausbeutung
KW  - Armut
KW  - Industrie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; How the poverty industry is siphoning aid from the vulnerable -- Agency purpose versus agency self-interest: conflict in serving the vulnerable -- Poverty's iron triangle -- Mining foster children for revenue -- Medicaid money laundering -- Cost recovery: poverty industry taking child support from children and families -- The expanding web of the poverty industry -- Reeling in the poverty industry: restoring agency purpose, and restoring fiscal -- Integrity to the safety net
N2  - Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisons. In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher shows us how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America's most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue. The poverty industry is stealing billions in federal aid and other funds from impoverished families, abused and neglected children, and the disabled and elderly poor. As policy experts across the political spectrum debate how to best structure government assistance programs, a massive siphoning of the safety net is occurring behind the scenes. In the face of these abuses of power, Hatcher offers a road map for reforms to realign the practices of human service agencies with their intended purpose, to prevent the misuse of public taxpayer dollars, and to ensure that government aid truly gets to those in need
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