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Bestsellers
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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
By: J. D. Vance
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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: Matthew Desmond
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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
By: Matthew Desmond
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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
- Unabridged
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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 Anonymous User on 07-31-21
By: Steve Corbett, and others
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, a leading advocate for the rights of the poor. addresses in White Poverty, a hugely neglected subject that just might provide the key to mitigating racism and bringing together tens of millions of working class and impoverished Americans.
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Cannot be antiracist without the ties that bind
- By Anonymous User on 08-25-24
By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Katherine Boo
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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
By: J. D. Vance
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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: Matthew Desmond
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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
By: Matthew Desmond
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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
- Unabridged
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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 Anonymous User on 07-31-21
By: Steve Corbett, and others
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, a leading advocate for the rights of the poor. addresses in White Poverty, a hugely neglected subject that just might provide the key to mitigating racism and bringing together tens of millions of working class and impoverished Americans.
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Cannot be antiracist without the ties that bind
- By Anonymous User on 08-25-24
By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Katherine Boo
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- By: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Comprehensive examination of homelessness
- By Anonymous User on 06-17-24
By: Kevin F. Adler, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Perspective Shift
- By Anonymous User on 10-14-21
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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
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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 Anonymous User on 10-14-21
By: Andrea Elliott
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- By: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Cabrini was my home
- By Anonymous User on 10-13-20
By: Ben Austen
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A wonderful program trying to help the most vulnerable in our city
- By Anonymous User on 02-21-24
By: Tracy Kidder
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Heartland
- A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....
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My favorite memoir of 2018
- By Anonymous User on 11-25-18
By: Sarah Smarsh
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The New Human Rights Movement
- Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- By: Peter Joseph
- Narrated by: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.
By: Peter Joseph
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Gregg Colburn, and others
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- By: David Ambroz
- Narrated by: David Ambroz
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....
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Very heart wrenching read, BUT
- By Anonymous User on 01-14-23
By: David Ambroz
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The Divide
- Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
- By: Jason Hickel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....
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eye-opening
- By Anonymous User on 03-05-19
By: Jason Hickel
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The Meth Lunches
- Food and Longing in an American City
- By: Kim Foster
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect....
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well written
- By Anonymous User on 05-07-24
By: Kim Foster
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- By: Viri Ríos, Ray Campos
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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¿El pobre es pobre porque quiere? ¿Los jóvenes son más flojos que antes y por eso ganan menos? ¿Quienes reciben programas sociales los gastan en tonterías? ¿Los estados del norte trabajan más que los del sur? ¿Tu jefe ya no te puede subir el sueldo?
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Me encantó
- By Anonymous User on 10-20-24
By: Viri Ríos, and others
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Bridges Out of Poverty
- Strategies for Professionals and Communities
- By: Philip E. DeVol, Ruby K. Payne, Terie Dreussi Smith
- Narrated by: Tom Blair, Philip DeVol
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals....
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Couldn't pause, awesome approach to bridging the gap.
- By Lamar on 08-28-16
By: Philip E. DeVol, and others
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- 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....
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- By Cynthia on 07-28-12
By: David K. Shipler
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- By: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrated by: Scott Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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!
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-18
By: Scott Harrison, and others
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Rethinking Rescue
- Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets
- By: Carol Mithers
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time-poverty and homelessness-in asking the very humane question, Who deserves the love of a pet?
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Amazing Story
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-24
By: Carol Mithers
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences....
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Frederick Davidson's a Great Reader
- By Debali on 01-11-09
By: George Orwell
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Downeast
- Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
- By: Gigi Georges
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard....
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Well Written, Mispronunciations
- By Anonymous User on 06-08-21
By: Gigi Georges
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Alienated America
- Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
- By: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Marie on 03-18-19
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Unequal Childhoods
- Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
- By: Annette Lareau
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....
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Essential reading for everyone
- By Jared on 10-09-12
By: Annette Lareau
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A Gift from Bob
- How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas
- By: James Bowen
- Narrated by: Kris Milnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this poignant new story, A Gift from Bob, James Bowen recalls the last Christmas he was to spend on the streets, busking and selling the Big Issue with his cat Bob....
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not as good as the first two books
- By Piano Teacher on 07-16-21
By: James Bowen
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The Price of Civilization
- Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
- By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American....
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heavy on the finger wagging
- By Andy on 10-23-11
By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Under the Affluence
- Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich, and Sacrificing the Future of America
- By: Tim Wise
- Narrated by: Tim Wise
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Under the Affluence, Tim Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need....
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An important point of view
- By Elliot Bennett on 04-05-24
By: Tim Wise
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
- Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
- By: John Hope Bryant
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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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!
- By Anonymous User on 11-05-16
By: John Hope Bryant