Social 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
    • 4.5 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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    • 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 16 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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    • What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    • By: Eric Jensen
    • Narrated by: Basil Sands
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the US and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students....

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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 4,412 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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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 132 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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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59,618 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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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 937 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
    • By: Dambisa Moyo, Niall Ferguson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • A national best-seller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • The Worldview that Makes the Underclass
    • By: Theodore Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Here is a searing account - probably the best yet published - of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does....

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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 215 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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    • By: Barbara O’Connor
    • Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • After being abandoned by her father, Georgina Hayes is forced to spend much of her time watching her younger brother....

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    • By: Karina Yan Glaser
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Series: The Vanderbeekers, Book 4
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat....

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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 690 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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    • 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 1,675 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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    • From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
    • By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....

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    • Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
    • By: John Freeman - editor
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt, Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself....

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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