English Poverty

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,129 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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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
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 6,076 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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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,682 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor
    • By: Anne Kim
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Veteran journalist Anne Kim investigates the multiple industries that infiltrate almost every aspect of the lives of the poor—health care, housing, criminal justice, and nutrition.

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    • Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
    • By: Henry George
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement....

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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • By: K.A. Holt
    • Narrated by: Alex Kydd
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word - something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year....

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    • By: James Allen
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,269 ratings
    • James Allen's From Poverty to Power (1901) and As a Man Thinketh (1902) stand as seminal texts in the self-help genre that have served as sources of inspiration since their publication at the beginning of the 20th century....

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    • By: B. CAMP
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Zeke Horn was born in the year 1918 in the mountains of east Tennessee. At the age of seven he lost his family and was forced out into an uncaring ...

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    • A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
    • By: Jamie Mustard
    • Narrated by: Jamie Mustard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A notorious movement cloaked in secrecy. A prosperous Black family that rose from the ashes of American slavery. A forgotten boy. And a daring escape.

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    • By: James M. Cain
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination....

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    • Three Tenant Families
    • By: James Agee
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South....

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    • By: MANU JOSEPH
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "...Droll, folksy irreverence" - Business Standard “... A scalpel cutting into the membrane that separates the rich from the poor” - The ...

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    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: George F. Gilder
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,694 ratings
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Kristin Hannah
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 37,693 ratings
    • From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression....

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    • A heartbreaking emotional page-turner based on a true story
    • By: Ioni Goldstein, Catarina Granater
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Based on a remarkable true story. Winter, 1969. Since she was a little girl, Catarina learned not to ask for much. Born to a family of corn farmers...

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    • Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    • By: David S. Landes
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....

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