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Poverty, by America
- Written 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. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
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A Powerful Message
- By Jezel on 2023-07-01
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Poverty, by America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-21
- Language: English
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- Written 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: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book.
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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: 2023-01-17
- Language: English
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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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. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Deeply Sad Learning
- By Christan on 2019-01-15
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-01
- Language: English
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Written 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. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad.
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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: 2020-10-06
- Language: English
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Written 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. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper-middle-class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets.
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Not climatic without context
- By Anonymous User on 2024-02-29
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-22
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Written by: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Must read
- By C_Gordey on 2019-12-22
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-08
- Language: English
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Poor Economics
- A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Written by: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning....
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must read 1000 times at least by our politicians
- By Rojz84 on 2019-12-09
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Poor Economics
- A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2012-01-03
- Language: English
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The Salt Path
- Written by: Raynor Winn
- Narrated by: Raynor Winn
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset via Devon and Cornwall. They have almost no money for food or shelter and must carry only the essentials for survival on their backs as they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky.
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Absolutely wonderful
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-01-31
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The Salt Path
- Narrated by: Raynor Winn
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2019-09-19
- Language: English
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Written 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 near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
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beautiful
- By Grace on 2021-01-17
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-07
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty
- Written by: Henry George
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
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Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land speculation is the root cause of wealth disparities, advocating for a single tax on land value to promote fairness and reduce poverty. This influential work is critical for understanding economic and social theories regarding land reform and taxation.
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Progress and Poverty
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-09
- Language: English
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Written by: Andrea Elliott
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
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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. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care.
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Well Written & Well Read
- By Terence K O'Riordan on 2023-06-14
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-05
- Language: English
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- Written 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. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy - and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.
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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: 2021-04-29
- Language: English
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- Written by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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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. She became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless. Five rackety years followed - barely coping, drinking to escape - until Katriona, now living in her father's native Dublin, hit rock bottom. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around.
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Brilliant and necessary
- By Allyson Coogan on 2023-09-18
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-25
- 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 51 mins
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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.
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Must read chapter 1 n 5 if you don't have time
- By Herve Richaud on 2020-12-23
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- Narrated by: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-04
- Language: English
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Chercher Sam
- Written by: Sophie Bienvenu
- Narrated by: Maxime Mailloux
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe. Sa chienne Sam est là, qui l’aide à continuer. Mais quand elle disparaît, Mathieu doit mettre fin à son errance. Pour la retrouver, il entreprend un voyage dont les bifurcations le ramènent au secret de son passé.
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Exceptionnel
- By Loulou Charron on 2020-05-20
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Chercher Sam
- Narrated by: Maxime Mailloux
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-14
- Language: French
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Written by: Jennifer Toth
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.
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lots of information
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-12-16
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-15
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Written by: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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Great social analysis wrapped in storytelling
- By Erin on 2018-09-20
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-28
- 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
- Written by: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrated by: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” in the 1960’s by hopping a train. Untrusting, uneducated, and violent, he spends 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth. Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high-priced deals—an international arts dealer who moves between upscale New York galleries and celebrities. It seems unlikely that these two men would meet under normal circumstances, but when Deborah Hall, Ron's wife, meets Denver, she sees him through God's eyes of compassion.
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Inspiring and emotional
- By Paulo Carneiro on 2019-01-29
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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
- Narrated by: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Series: Same Kind of Different as Me, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-19
- Language: English
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- Written by: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrated by: Scott Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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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. In the tradition of such best-selling books as Shoe Dog and Mountains Beyond Mountains, Thirst is a riveting account of how to build a better charity, a better business, a better life - and a gritty tale that proves it’s never too late to make a change.
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Not what I expected - but I'm glad I listened
- By J. Paul Nadeau on 2022-02-22
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- Narrated by: Scott Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-02
- Language: English
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Wealth and Poverty
- A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
- Written by: George F. Gilder
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this modern classic, Gilder affirms the moral superiority of free-market capitalism and explains why supply-side economics is more effective at decreasing poverty than government-regulated markets. Now, in a completely updated edition of Wealth and Poverty, Gilder compares America’s current economic challenges with its past economic problems.
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Wealth and Poverty
- A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2012-08-21
- Language: English
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