High Poverty

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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 938 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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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 867 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 691 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • 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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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
    • By: Mark Robert Rank
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? One of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer....

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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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    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • By: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

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    • By: Victor Hugo
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 33 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Les Miserables is set in the Parisian underworld. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread....

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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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    • Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
    • By: Jason Hickel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • 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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    • A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
    • By: Linda F. Nathan
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In When Grit Isn't Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity....

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    • A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women's Equity
    • By: Celeste Mergens
    • Narrated by: Celeste Mergens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
    • By: Bernard Jankowski
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School, bringing to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma....

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    • By: K.L. Going
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell....

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    • By: Laurel A. Rockefeller
    • Narrated by: Alex Freeman
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this thought-provoking historical and economic analysis, Laurel A. Rockefeller takes on poverty culture head-on, exploring what it means to be poor in the United States....

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    • Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization
    • By: Cia Verschelden, Kofi Lomotey - foreword
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us....

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    • How a Homeless Man from the Streets of L.A. Redefined Our Home
    • By: Michael Konik
    • Narrated by: George W. Sarris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this poignant memoir from best-selling author Michael Konik, “family” and “home” take on profound new meaning through one person's care for a stranger....

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