Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Daniel Hatcher to present the new book "The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens."
In his eye-opening examination of what all too often happens to Medicaid and Medicare funds, child support payments, and other public assistance designed for the ill, the abused, and the elderly, Hatcher, a professor of law at the University of Baltimore who has also worked with Maryland Legal Aid Bureau and the Children’s Defense Fund, exposes how consultants and entrepreneurs of for-profit agencies themselves benefit from government programs. He follows his exposé with ways to reform policy so that the aid does in fact reach its intended beneficiaries.
