Poverty industry
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poverty-industry-248-5618990
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Poverty industry
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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 poor. Businesses in the poverty industry often include payday loan centers, pawnshops, rent-to-own centers, casinos, liquor stores, lotteries, tobacco stores, credit card companies, and bail-bond services. Illegal ventures such as loansharking might also be included. The poverty industry makes roughly US$33 billion a year in the United States. In
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Businesses that make most of their money from the poor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_industry
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2024-01-15T10:33:26Z
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