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Author: Gary Rivlin

Gary Rivlin is the author of five books, including Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.—How the Working Poor Became Big Business. He has worked as a staff reporter for The New York Times, the Chicago Reader; and the East Bay Express.

Co-published with The Nib. Illustration by Jackie Roche. A comic about a Lower Ninth resident who invests everything he’s got back into his community.

Co-published with The Atavist, excerpted on Mother Jones. Tony Davis was 18 when he took another boy's life in a drive-by shooting. Now he's a middle-aged man worthy of redemption.

Co-published with The Daily BeastWhile America’s jobs and economy remain flat, it’s getting more expensive to be poor, with everyone from payday lenders to subprime credit cards charging extortionate rates.

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