Interview: Anne Kim on How the Corporate Poverty Complex Profiteers Off of Poor Americans

Anne joins Editor Cyril Mychalejko on this week's episode of The Signal to talk about her new book "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor."

Anne Kim is a writer, lawyer, and public policy expert with a long career in Washington, DC–based think tanks working in and around Capitol Hill. She is a contributing editor at Washington Monthly, where she was a senior writer. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Governing, TheAtlantic.com, the Wall Street Journal, Democracy, and numerous other publications. Anne joins Editor Cyril Mychalejko on the Bucks County Beacon’s podcast The Signal to talk about her new book Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor.

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Host Cyril Mychalejko’s 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on Public Education in America

  1. The Guarantee Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy, by Natalie Foster
  2. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
  3. America: What Went Wrong?, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele 
  4. Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
  5. Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy, by Martin Gilens.

The Signal is produced by Kevin Mahoney, Raging Chicken Media.

Music by Maf é Tulà and Cartas a Felice, “La Loca.” Panela Music. 

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Cyril Mychalejko is the Editor-in-Chief of the Bucks County Beacon. Read his columns on Sundays and follow him on Twitter.

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