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Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police,  and punish the poor

text Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor

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 comparat... Read more
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 -- Ac... Read more
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260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher
St. Martin's Press 2018

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 362.5 EUB in Adult Non-fiction Available

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