Do For-Profit Colleges Exploit Students in Extreme Poverty?
Matthew Desmond’s new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, includes for-profit colleges along with loan sharks, pay-to-own furniture sellers, and slumlords, among predatory businesses whom he contends exploit persons in extreme poverty. The book was reviewed by Barbara Ehrenreich in the New York Times on February 26, 2016.