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Eubanks, Virginia, 1972-
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Poor -- Services for -- United States -- Data processing.
Poverty -- United States.
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Eubanks, Virginia, 1972-
Poor -- Services for -- United States -- Data processing.
Poverty -- United States.
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Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the
poor
/ Virginia Eubanks.
by
Eubanks, Virginia, 1972-
St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Call #:
362.560285 E86a
Subjects
Poor
--
Services
for
--
United
States
--
Data
processing
.
Poverty
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
9781250074317 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: red flags
--
From poorhouse to database
--
Automating welfare in the heartland
--
High-tech homelessness in the city of angels
--
The Allegheny algorithm
--
The digital poorhouse
--
Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse
--
Acknowledgments
--
Sources and methods
--
Endnotes
--
Index.
Summary:
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years because a new computer system interprets any mistake as failure to cooperate. In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human
services
has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems
--
rather than humans
--
control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of
data
, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the
poor
. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of
data
mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on
poor
and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
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