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  • Hillbilly Elegy Audiobook By J. D. Vance cover art

    • Hillbilly Elegy

    • 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 60,147 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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  • Evicted Audiobook By Matthew Desmond cover art

    • Evicted

    • 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 5,987 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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  • Poverty, by America Audiobook By Matthew Desmond cover art

    • Poverty, by America

    • 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 856 ratings

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

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  • Maid Audiobook By Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword cover art

    • Maid

    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,711 ratings

    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers Audiobook By Katherine Boo cover art

    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • By: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,285 ratings

    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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  • White Poverty Audiobook By Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor cover art

    • White Poverty

    • 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 18 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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  • Nickel and Dimed Audiobook By Barbara Ehrenreich cover art

    • Nickel and Dimed

    • 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 1,574 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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  • Invisible Child Audiobook By Andrea Elliott cover art

    • Invisible Child

    • 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 709 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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  • When Helping Hurts Audiobook By Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert cover art

    • When Helping Hurts

    • How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
    • By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
    • Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings

    • Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....

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  • Heartland Audiobook By Sarah Smarsh cover art

    • Heartland

    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • By: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 974 ratings

    • During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....

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  • Same Kind of Different as Me Audiobook By Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor cover art

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  • The Corner Audiobook By David Simon, Edward Burns cover art

    • The Corner

    • 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 293 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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  • Rough Sleepers Audiobook By Tracy Kidder cover art

    • Rough Sleepers

    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • By: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings

    • After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....

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  • The Great Displacement Audiobook By Jake Bittle cover art

    • The Great Displacement

    • Climate Change and the Next American Migration
    • By: Jake Bittle
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings

    • Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.

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  • Poor Economics Audiobook By Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo cover art

    • Poor Economics

    • 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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  • The Road to Wigan Pier Audiobook By George Orwell cover art

    • The Road to Wigan Pier

    • 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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  • Homelessness Is a Housing Problem Audiobook By Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern cover art

    • Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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  • Poor Audiobook By Katriona O'Sullivan cover art

    • Poor

    • By: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

    • As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....

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  • When We Walk By Audiobook By Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, Andrijana Bilbija - contributor cov

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  • A Place Called Home Audiobook By David Ambroz cover art

    • A Place Called Home

    • A Memoir
    • By: David Ambroz
    • Narrated by: David Ambroz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings

    • There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....

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