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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,071 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

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    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 415 ratings
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

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    • The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
    • By: Kurt Andersen
    • Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,167 ratings
    • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....

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    • How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
    • By: David Gelles
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
    • By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
    • Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
    • In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns....

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    • The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century....

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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • By: John Hope Bryant
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

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    • How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

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    • Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
    • By: Kris Marsh
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA)....

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    • How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
    • By: Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't.....

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    • How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
    • By: Arianna Huffington
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • The United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation. The evidence is all around us....

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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • America in 100 Charts
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Scott Galloway
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation—and how we got here....

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    • The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
    • By: Elizabeth Warren
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,025 ratings
    • The fiery US senator from Massachusetts and best-selling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it....

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    • Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
    • By: Jeff Faux
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? No one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge is that things are still pretty great for the people who run America.....

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    • The Rise of Progressive Economics
    • By: Michael Tomasky
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In the first half of the twentieth century the Keynesian brand of economics, which saw government spending as a necessary spur to economic growth, prevailed. Then in the 1970s, conservatives fought back....

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    • Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
    • By: Roger L. Martin
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-listen guide for saving democratic capitalism....

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    • What's Become of the Common Good?
    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 914 ratings
    • The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? Find out....

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    • Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
    • By: Mary Pattillo
    • Narrated by: Jo Sands
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class....

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