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    • Confessions of a Welfare Mom
    • By: B. Morrison
    • Narrated by: B. Morrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother....

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    • The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
    • By: Elliott Currie
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injustice....

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    • The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans
    • By: Michael A. Cohen, Micah Zenko
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at the history of national security fear-mongering in America and how it distracts citizens from the issues that really matter....

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    • How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity
    • By: Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
    • Narrated by: Steve Forbes
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A clear and vital guide, Reviving America shows how the United States can recover the optimism and entrepreneurial dynamism that made it the greatest nation in history....

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    • Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America
    • By: Dr. William J. Bennett, Robert A. White
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • William J. Bennett amd co-author Robert White provide strong societal and scientific arguments against the legalization of marijuana....

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    • Using Brain Science to Create a More Just Nation
    • By: Dan Meegan
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Find out....

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    • Your Handbook for Surviving the New Health Care Law
    • By: Betsy McCaughey PH.D
    • Narrated by: Phoebe Simon
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a political football for years now, but as its provisions start going into effect, there’s still precious little information available on how it will impact you....

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    • New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge
    • By: Eric Meade
    • Narrated by: Bob Brill
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • We typically view poverty as a technical problem that we can solve with more money, more technology, and more volunteers. But there is an adaptive side to the problem of poverty, as well....

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    • How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal
    • By: Brink Lindsey
    • Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter....

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    • A New Diet to Lost Weight
    • By: Laura Jessy Highbury
    • Narrated by: Klaus von Hohenloe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • Author Laura Jessy Highbury uses empirical evidence from a range of disciplines - anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, social advertising, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning - to examine America's obesity problem....

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    • How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government
    • By: Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, Jean Crowder
    • Narrated by: Victoria Cruz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Happiness Policy Handbook is the essential resource for policymakers and professionals working to integrate happiness and well-being into governmental processes and institutions....

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    • The True Story of How One Amazing Dog Changed His Owner's Life
    • By: John Tovey, Veronica Clark
    • Narrated by: Philip Ormond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong, it was just beginning....

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    • Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
    • By: Rachel Elise Barkow
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • With the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the practical insights gained through on-the-ground work on criminal-justice reform, Rachel Barkow explains how dangerous it is to base criminal-justice policy on the whims of the electorate....

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    • Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
    • By: James Stone
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from health care to education to inequality....

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    • Disaster Cascades in Court
    • By: Susan M. Sterett
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too....

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    • America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
    • By: Anne Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A deeply affecting exposé of America’s hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc....

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    • The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond
    • By: Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder
    • Narrated by: Lenny Henry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Joining forces with the former chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, Sir Lenny Henry draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective and why they are simply not enough....

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