![]() ![]() 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.Īutomating Inequality first came out in 2018 and was re-issued in a new paperback edition in August 2019. In her book, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. ![]() From the poorhouses of earlier centuries to Ronald Reagan’s trope of the “welfare queen” to Bill Clinton’s draconian promise to “end to welfare as we know it,” the poor have been blamed for their lot as an excuse to deny them resources.īut the ushering in of the digital age has made this far, far worse - and it’s presaged automated methods of digital control that are beginning to be used on all of us. The poor have been stigmatized throughout our history as a nation. It’s about how the use of computerized algorithms are replacing human beings in deciding in who is or is not “worthy” of getting help - and destroying lives in the process. ![]() ![]() We spend the hour with Virginia Eubanks talking about her award-winning book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. ![]()
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