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II. The Poverty Industry, Economic<br />

Inequality, and Redlining<br />

The Poverty Industry<br />

The terms Poverty Industry or Poverty Business refer to a wide range of<br />

money-making activities that attract a large portion of their business from the poor<br />

because they are poor. Businesses in the poverty industry often include payday loan<br />

centers, pawnshops, rent-to-own centers, casinos, liquor stores, lotteries, tobacco<br />

stores, credit card companies, and bail-bond services. Illegal ventures such as<br />

loansharking might also be included. The poverty industry makes roughly US$33 billion<br />

a year in the United States. In 2010, elected American federal officials received more<br />

than $1.5 million in campaign contributions from poverty-industry donors.<br />

Income Inequality<br />

Economic Inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic wellbeing<br />

among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.<br />

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