English 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 849 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    • By: David S. Landes
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....

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    • By: Yuen Yuen Ang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers. Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions....

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    • A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder
    • By: Neal Wooten
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce....

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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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    • 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 4,415 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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 17 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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 292 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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    • By: Cynthia Voigt
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Series: Tillerman Family, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • 13-year-old Dicey Tillerman sits in the car at the shopping mall with her younger sister and two brothers. Momma had said, "You be good", but Momma never comes back....

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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 412 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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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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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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    • A memoir about homelessness through the eyes of a young girl
    • By: Nichole Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 9-year-old Nichole and her parents are evicted from their home because both of her parents are addicted to heroin. With nowhere left to turn, they ...

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    • By: K.A. Holt
    • Narrated by: Alex Kydd
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word - something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year....

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    • A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
    • By: Cornelia Cornelissen
    • Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness" - the west....

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    • By: Rex Ogle
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program....

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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 400 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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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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