Poverty American City

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

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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 708 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968
    • By: Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it.

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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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    • 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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    • The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
    • By: Erica L. Green, Wes Moore
    • Narrated by: Wes Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
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    • From the New York Times best-selling author of The Other Wes Moore comes a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world....

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