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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-27-23
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1. Poverty, by America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-21-23
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- By Cynthia on 11-20-16
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2. Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-28-16
- Language: English
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- By Charla on 05-18-16
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3. Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-01-16
- Language: English
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- By Diana Kamidi on 07-31-21
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4. When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-29-21
- Language: English
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Very engaging
- By NMwritergal on 01-24-19
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5. Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-22-19
- Language: English
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- By: Andrea Elliott
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Narration is completely over the top
- By Heather on 10-14-21
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6. Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-05-21
- Language: English
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- By: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....
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The honesty
- By jim d metzker on 05-17-24
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7. Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-17-23
- Language: English
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- By: Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....
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Understanding your Community.
- By bigronald8 on 10-07-19
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8. A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-09-19
- Language: English
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….
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The narrator ruined this book.
- By Ryan Martin on 10-21-18
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9. Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- By: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrated by: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....
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Stays with me...
- By Rebekah Sue Carolla on 09-23-18
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10. Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- Narrated by: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Series: Same Kind of Different as Me, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-19-17
- Language: English
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- By P. Dean on 06-02-23
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11. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-21-23
- Language: English
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- By: Jake Bittle
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is the untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us....
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Where we're headed
- By Dr. Stuart A. Blair on 03-09-23
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12. The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-21-23
- Language: English
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- By Dr. on 06-14-12
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13. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-07-12
- Language: English
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- By: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- By WitchCrafter on 06-01-21
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14. The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
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15. Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-30-17
- Language: English
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Building Social Business
- The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
- By: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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In this book, Yunus traces the development of the social business idea and explains its lessons for entrepreneurs, social activists, and policy makers....
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Delivers less than I had hoped
- By Heartstrings11 on 05-21-10
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16. Building Social Business
- The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-11-10
- Language: English
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Excluded
- How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
- By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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An indictment of America's housing policy, Excluded reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it....
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Everyone should read
- By P Willis on 09-17-23
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17. Excluded
- How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places....
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18. The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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American Made
- What Happens to People When Work Disappears
- By: Farah Stockman
- Narrated by: Farah Stockman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands....
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Explains a lot!
- By MoMa on 11-12-21
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19. American Made
- What Happens to People When Work Disappears
- Narrated by: Farah Stockman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- By vic on 02-03-20
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20. Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-14-20
- Language: English
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