AUTOMATING INEQUALITY. Copyright © 2017 by Virginia Eubanks. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
“System Failure: The High-Tech Way to Slash Public Benefits,” by Virginia Eubanks. Copyright © 2015 by The Nation. All rights reserved. Portions reprinted by kind permission of The Nation.
Poorhouse postcards: The Anti-Catholic Ottokar card, top, suggests only two destinations for a rat race of immigrants: the madhouse or the poorhouse; an idealized view of the Bradford County poorhouse in Burlingon, Pennsylvania, center; while a photograph of the Sauk County poor farm in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, bottom, presents a more ominous view. Collection of the author.
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First Edition: January 2018