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"They Just Need to Get a Job"
- 15 Myths on Homelessness
- Written by: Mary Brosnahan
- Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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“Readers will come away infuriated, with a greater understanding of the systemic causes of homelessness, and with more compassion for their homeless neighbors. Essential reading for any community affected by homelessness (which is all of them).” —Booklist, Starred Review For readers of...
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"They Just Need to Get a Job"
- 15 Myths on Homelessness
- Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-12
- Language: English
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Written by: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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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
- Written by: Richard Stearns
- Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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ECPA 2010 Christian Book of the Year Award Winner! What Does God Expect of Us? Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? More than twenty years...
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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
- Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2014-06-19
- Language: English
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Written by: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-28
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Tree
- A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themsleves
- Written by: James Tooley
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Named after Mahatma Gandhi's phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree recounts Tooley's journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of Gansu, China. It introduces listeners to the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.
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The Beautiful Tree
- A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themsleves
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-09
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- Written by: Max Podemski
- Narrated by: Rob Greenbaum
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston...
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- Narrated by: Rob Greenbaum
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-26
- Language: English
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- Written by: Peter Joseph
- Narrated by: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make "personal success" virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social system incentivizes behavior that will only make our problems worse. If true human rights progress is to be achieved today, it is time we dig deeper—rethinking the very foundation of our social system.
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- Narrated by: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2024-12-03
- Language: English
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El hambre [Hunger]
- Written by: Martín Caparrós
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
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«Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al día. No hay nada más frecuente, más constante, más presente en nuestras vidas que el hambre –y, al mismo tiempo, para muchos de nosotros, nada más lejano que el hambre verdadera.» Para entenderlo, para contarlo, Martín Caparrós recorrió la geografía del hambre, desde la India, Bangladesh, Níger, Kenia y Sudán hasta naciones desarrolladas como Estados Unidos y España.
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El hambre [Hunger]
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-16
- Language: Spanish
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Toxic Communities
- Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
- Written by: Dorceta E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have found the "paths of least resistance", there are many hazardous waste and toxic facilities in these communities, leading residents to experience health and wellness problems on top of the race and class discrimination most already experience.
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Toxic Communities
- Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-19
- Language: English
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The Locust Effect
- Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
- Written by: Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the surface of the world’s poorest communities, common violence—like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality—has become routine and relentless. And like a horde of locusts devouring everything in their path, the unchecked plague of violence ruins lives, blocks the road out of poverty, and undercuts development.
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The Locust Effect
- Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-04
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Written by: Jacob A. Riis
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure.
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-12
- Language: English
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Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- Written by: Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty? Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies.
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Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2013-08-23
- Language: English
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- Written by: Anthony Biglan
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book.
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2015-07-15
- Language: English
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The Poverty Paradox
- Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
- Written by: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique perspective for understanding this puzzle.
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The Poverty Paradox
- Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-25
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
- Written by: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Toby Scott McLellan
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day, to appeal to the die-hard capitalists to take care of the downtrodden masses. Since this inequity continues, this story is still popular, and will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
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A Christmas Carol
- Narrated by: Toby Scott McLellan
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-17
- Language: English
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Economic Gangsters
- Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
- Written by: Raymond Fisman, Edmund Miguel
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid
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Economic Gangsters
- Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2009-09-17
- Language: English
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- Written by: Daniel L. Hatcher
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding.
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An essay about economics written by a lawyer
- By G. P. on 2025-01-09
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-22
- Language: English
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- Written by: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2011-04-19
- Language: English
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- Written by: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in 11 African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
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A book everyone should read
- By RandomAccount007 on 2023-04-30
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2016-12-06
- Language: English
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HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3
- I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
- Written by: John Sutton
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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With a career spanning 10 years inside the walls of Britain's most infamous prisons – Manchester’s Strangeways and London’s Wormwood Scrubs – John Sutton has experienced it all. Attacked by The Soho Vampire an insane killer, assaulted by The Cambridge Rapist, threatened by The IRA, beaten, persecuted and prosecuted by Freemason officers, John Sutton survived to reveal the hard-hitting truth in this jaw-dropping memoir.
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HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3
- I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-20
- Language: English
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