Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy

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Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I Overview of the Fringe Economy

1 America’s Changing Fringe Economy

2 Why the Fringe Economy Is Growing

3 Debt and the Functionally Poor Middle Class

PART II The Fringe Sectors

4 The Credit Card Industry

5 Storefront Loans: Pawnshops Payday Loans and Tax Refund Lenders

6 Alternative Services: Check Cashers the Rent-to-Own Industry and Telecommunications

7 Fringe Housing

8 Real Estate Speculation and Foreclosure

9 The Fringe Auto Industry

10 The Getting-Out-of-Debt Industry

PART III Looking Forward

11 What Can Be Done to Control the Fringe Economy?

Glossary

Index

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