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The High-Tech Poorhouse
When algorithms are introduced into public assistance programs, the effects are rarely good for poor and working-class beneficiaries.
Virginia Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her latest book is Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age.
When algorithms are introduced into public assistance programs, the effects are rarely good for poor and working-class beneficiaries.