![]() Its argument should be widely circulated, to poor people, social service workers and policymakers, but also throughout the professional classes. SHORTLIST: 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice ![]() WINNER: The McGannon Center Book Prize for 2018 Deeply researched and passionately written, Automating Inequality could not be more timely. ![]() 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. 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. While we all live under this new regime of data analytics, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. ![]() Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. “This book is downright scary - but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered to demand justice.” ― Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything ![]()
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