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Bestsellers
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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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
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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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
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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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
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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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
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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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
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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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
- De Heather en 10-14-21
De: Andrea Elliott
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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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
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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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
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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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
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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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
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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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
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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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
- De Heather en 10-14-21
De: Andrea Elliott
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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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.
- De Ryan Martin en 10-21-18
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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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
- De jim d metzker en 05-17-24
De: Tracy Kidder
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- De: Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrado por: Ruby K. Payne
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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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.
- De bigronald8 en 10-07-19
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- De: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Duración: 25 h y 28 m
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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.
- De WitchCrafter en 06-01-21
De: David Simon, y otros
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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
- De: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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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...
- De Rebekah Sue Carolla en 09-23-18
De: Ron Hall, y otros
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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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!
- De P. Dean en 06-02-23
De: Gregg Colburn, y otros
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- De: Jake Bittle
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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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
- De Dr. Stuart A. Blair en 03-09-23
De: Jake Bittle
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- De: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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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....
De: Kathryn J. Edin, y otros
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Excluded
- How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
- De: Richard D. Kahlenberg
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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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
- De P Willis en 09-17-23
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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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
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
- Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
- De: John Hope Bryant
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....
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Simply a MUST read!
- De Kevin E Crittendon en 11-05-16
De: John Hope Bryant
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- De: Mary Otto
- Narrado por: Suehyla El'Attar
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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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
- De Elaine en 08-04-17
De: Mary Otto
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Building Social Business
- The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
- De: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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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
- De Heartstrings11 en 05-21-10
De: Muhammad Yunus
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If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- De: Vicki Sokolik
- Narrado por: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.
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Not what I thought it would be
- De Angel I. en 04-07-24
De: Vicki Sokolik
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The End of Poverty
- Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- De: Jeffrey Sachs
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hilgartner
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....
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A Call for Africa
- De Mr Conway en 08-03-12
De: Jeffrey Sachs
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Alienated America
- Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
- De: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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This hard-hitting analysis identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: It is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life....
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A good companion to Murray's Coming Apart
- De Marie en 03-18-19
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- De: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Kevin F. Adler
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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When We Walk By
- De Anonymous User en 05-26-24
De: Kevin F. Adler, y otros
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- De: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrado por: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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Great listen
- De Anonymous User en 08-21-23
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- De: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrado por: Scott Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....
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Inspiring!
- De April Ackroyd en 10-07-18
De: Scott Harrison, y otros
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- De: Peter Joseph
- Narrado por: Peter Joseph
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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In our interconnected world, self-interest and social interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable....
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A Great Introduction to the new trains of thought
- De Michael en 07-15-17
De: Peter Joseph
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American Made
- What Happens to People When Work Disappears
- De: Farah Stockman
- Narrado por: Farah Stockman
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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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!
- De MoMa en 11-12-21
De: Farah Stockman
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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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
- De vic en 02-03-20
De: Nicholas D. Kristof, y otros
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Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- De: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, Bomani Jones - foreword
- Narrado por: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime - but we need to get started now....
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very left leaning
- De Bert Sloan en 09-06-22
De: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, y otros
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The Hole in Our Gospel, Special Edition
- What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World
- De: Richard Stearns
- Narrado por: Tommy Cresswell
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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It is 1998, and Richard Stearns’s heart is breaking as he sits in a mud hut and listens to the story of an orphaned child in Rakai, Uganda....
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Disappointed
- De Rev. Gary F. Turner en 01-23-19
De: Richard Stearns