“Being poor is not simply a matter of lacking opportunities to convert one's labor into a wage--or a living wage, for that matter--but rather of becoming indebted and, through the commodification of these debts, paying an ever-higher price for being poor.” InequalityClass StrugglePolitics Of The United States Book:Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class Source: Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class