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Author Virginia Eubanks argues that automated systems that governments across the U.S. use to deliver benefit and welfare programs are often... 'Automating Inequality': Algorithms In Public Services ...

Why has the gap between America’s rich and most everyone else widened so much over recent decades? The two most basic arithmetic reasons: Our rich are raking in fabulously more than ever before, and, ...

Several years ago, I met someone who moved for a new job. She found an apartment for $500 per month, but could not afford the $1,000 deposit. So instead, she moved into a $200 per week hotel bringing ...

The state of Indiana denied one million applications for health care, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years - because a new computer system interpreted any application mistake as "failure to ...

1. With harrowing first-person testimony—including her own, about her experience navigating the U.S. health-insurance system—Virginia Eubanks argues in “Automating Inequality” that America has created ...

Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; ...

In the fall of 2008, Omega Young got a letter prompting her to recertify for Medicaid. But she was unable to make the appointment because she was suffering from ovarian cancer. She called her local ...

"She lost her benefits, she couldn't afford her medication, she lost her food stamps, she couldn't pay her rent, she lost access to free transportation to her medical appointments," Virginia Eubanks ...