Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. How the Poverty Industry Is Siphoning Aid from the Vulnerable

1. Agency Purpose versus Agency Self-Interest: Conflict in Serving the Vulnerable

2. Poverty’s Iron Triangle

Part II. Examples of Using the Vulnerable as a Revenue Source

3. Mining Foster Children for Revenue

4. Medicaid Money Laundering

5. Cost Recovery: Poverty Industry Taking Child Support from Children and Families

Part III. Looking Forward, and Reclaiming the Safety Net

6. The Expanding Web of the Poverty Industry

7. Reeling In the Poverty Industry: Restoring Agency Purpose, and Restoring Fiscal Integrity to the Safety Net

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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