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Not a Crime to Be Poor
- The Criminalization of Poverty in America
- Written by: Peter Edelman
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the mental hospitals that have traditionally served the impoverished, in one of the richest countries on Earth we have effectively made it a crime to be poor.
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Not a Crime to Be Poor
- The Criminalization of Poverty in America
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-31
- Language: English
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Tales of Two Americas
- Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
- Written by: John Freeman - editor
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt, Corey M. Snow
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared.
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Tales of Two Americas
- Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt, Corey M. Snow
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-12
- Language: English
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Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- Written by: Kristin S. Seefeldt
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets, which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers.
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Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-11
- Language: English
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The Fair Trade Scandal
- Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
- Written by: Ndongo Sylla
- Narrated by: Don Bratschie
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom.
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The Fair Trade Scandal
- Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
- Narrated by: Don Bratschie
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2014-08-28
- Language: English
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- Written by: David A. Ansell
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In
The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients.
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-23
- Language: English
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Sich am eigenen Schopf aus der Armut ziehen
- Fußball als Chance für die Mädchen in der Dritten Welt
- Written by: Eggert Blum
- Narrated by: Eggert Blum
- Length: 23 mins
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Wenn im Sommer in Deutschland die sechste Fußballweltmeisterschaft der Frauen ausgetragen wird, dann werden auch viele Mädchen...
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Sich am eigenen Schopf aus der Armut ziehen
- Fußball als Chance für die Mädchen in der Dritten Welt
- Narrated by: Eggert Blum
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-12
- Language: German
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The American Way of Eating
- Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
- Written by: Tracie McMillan
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost-which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters.
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The American Way of Eating
- Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-30
- Language: English
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- Written by: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2009-12-10
- Language: English
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Out of Poverty
- What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
- Written by: Paul Polak
- Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong in our efforts to end the root causes of poverty. He then, through the story of a Nepali farmer, goes on to detail solutions for what actually works when it comes to ending poverty.
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Out of Poverty
- What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
- Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2012-11-27
- Language: English
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Uneven Ground
- Appalachia Since 1945
- Written by: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early 20th-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected.
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Uneven Ground
- Appalachia Since 1945
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2017-01-19
- Language: English
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The Politics of Inequality
- A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
- Written by: Michael J. Thompson
- Narrated by: David Stampone
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.
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The Politics of Inequality
- A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
- Narrated by: David Stampone
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2009-07-23
- Language: English
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Interstate 69
- The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
- Written by: Matt Dellinger
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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In the works for more than twenty years, Interstate 69 has been both eagerly anticipated as an economic godsend and the center of a firestorm of protests by local environmentalists, farmers, ranchers, anarchists, and others who question both the wisdom of building more highways and the merits of globalization. Part history, part travelogue, Interstate 69 chronicles the last great highway project in America, introducing the people who have worked tirelessly to build it or stop it from being built, and the many places it would change forever.
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Interstate 69
- The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2010-08-24
- Language: English
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Playing for Their Lives
- The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music
- Written by: Tricia Tunstall, Eric Booth
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians with strong social consciences are founding intensive orchestra programs for children in need. In this captivating and inspiring account, authors Tricia Tunstall and Eric Booth tell the remarkable story of the international El Sistema movement.
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Playing for Their Lives
- The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-08
- Language: English
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More Than Just Race
- Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
- Written by: William Julius Wilson
- Narrated by: Vince Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation’s diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a Black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.
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More Than Just Race
- Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
- Narrated by: Vince Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-04
- Language: English
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Schwangerschaftsrisiko Armut
- Written by: Andreas Boueke
- Narrated by: Jürgen Franz, Eva Irion, Karl-Rudolf Menke, and others
- Length: 24 mins
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In keinem anderen Land Lateinamerikas haben so wenige Frauen Zugang zu medizinischen Einrichtungen wie in Guatemala. Die staatliche Gesundheitsversorgung reicht längst nicht aus. Private Krankenhäuser sind meist zu teuer. Schwangerschaften sind deshalb mit extremen Risiken verbunden. Vielen Schwangeren bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als sich auf das Wissen der Heiler der Mayamedizin und der Comadronas, der traditionellen Geburtshelferinnen, zu verlassen.
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Schwangerschaftsrisiko Armut
- Narrated by: Jürgen Franz, Eva Irion, Karl-Rudolf Menke, Bettina Müller-Hesse
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-31
- Language: German
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A Chance to Win
- Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
- Written by: Jonathan Schuppe
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93-mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle but through the fists and tears, lopsided losses and rare victories, this bunch of misfits becomes a team, and in doing so gives the community something to root for.
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A Chance to Win
- Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-15
- Language: English
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Ask Me Why I Hurt
- The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
- Written by: Randy Christensen M.D., Rene Denfeld
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way, Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor's office on wheels. His patients are the city's homeless adolescents and children.
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Ask Me Why I Hurt
- The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2011-05-04
- Language: English
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Broke, USA
- From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business
- Written by: Gary Rivlin
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries—the business of poverty. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the “poverty industry” that will also appeal to readers...
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Broke, USA
- From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2010-08-24
- Language: English
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The Haves and the Have Nots
- A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- Written by: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why, beyond the idle curiosity, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time.
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The Haves and the Have Nots
- A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-28
- Language: English
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- Written by: Dave Zirin
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-21
- Language: English
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