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貧困
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1. Poverty industryThe term poverty industry refers to a wide-range of money-making activities that attract a large portion of their business from the poor. Businesses in the poverty industry often include payday loan centers, pawnshops, casinos, liquor stores, tobacco stores, and credit card companies. Illegal ventures such as loansharking or drug-dealing or prostitution might also be included. The poverty industry makes roughly US$33 billion a year in the United States.
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