VIDEO: Anne Kim Discusses “Poverty for Profit” with Paul Glastris

In her brilliant new book Poverty for Profit, reviewed here, Washington Monthly Contributing Editor Anne Kim pulls back the curtain on a vast, predatory corporate sector that few middle-class Americans know anything about.

Over the past few decades, she explains, government has increasingly handed off the delivery of safety net programs—in health care, housing, criminal justice, and nutrition—to large for-profit companies that promised better, more efficient services. Instead, Kim reveals, these businesses cut corners, deliver poor results, systematically abuse their clients—and lobby politicians to keep their taxpayer-subsidized rackets going.

On July 15th Editor-in-Chief Paul Glastris joined Kim at Politics and Prose for an in-depth discussion of Poverty for Profit. You can watch their conversation by clicking here.

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