City Poverty

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,985 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 848 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • By: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 706 ratings
    • 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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    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • By: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

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    • A Guide to the Book by Matthew Desmond
    • By: ZIP Reads
    • Narrated by: Satauna Howery
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In his thought-provoking and deeply moving book, Matthew Desmond tackles the issue of poverty in America through the lens of eviction. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.) Listen for more....

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town
    • By: Susan Hartman
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • City of Refugees paints a gripping portrait of refugees who forged a new life in the Rust Belt, the deep roots they’ve formed in their community, and their role in shaping its culture and prosperity.

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    • Mystery Book. From Luxury to Poverty, from New York to Wyoming, and An Unlikely Marriage. (Mystery Book Collection)
    • By: Kurt Berwick
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Mystery Book set in New York City during the late 19th century. Sudden Poverty is a poignant and dramatic story set in late 19th-century New York...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
    • By: Paul Polak
    • Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Food and Longing in an American City
    • By: Kim Foster
    • Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • The Life of a City, 1840-1870
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled....

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    • Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
    • By: William Julius Wilson
    • Narrated by: Vince Bailey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged....

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    • Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years....

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    • Currency
    • By: Justin Torres
    • Narrated by: Wilson Cruz
    • Series: Currency
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 02-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Poised between his lush introversion and the brutal realm of his every day, a young artist considers the price of precarity in this powerful short story by Justin Torres, the author of We the Animals....

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    • By: Felice Holman
    • Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris
    • Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit's attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it....

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    • Twenty Years in Housing Court
    • By: Sateesh Nori
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Our cities contain an invisible underclass: tenants. To be a tenant means to be permanently insecure, to be between homes, broke, unhealthy, and ...

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