Social Poverty

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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 4,422 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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 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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    • 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 293 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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    • 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 59,880 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class 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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    • 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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    • A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
    • By: Ruby K. Payne PhD
    • Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....

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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 1,574 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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    • By: Ann Braden
    • Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus....

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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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    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: George F. Gilder
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time....

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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
    • By: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty....

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    • How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom
    • By: Ruby K. Payne
    • Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Address anger, anxiety, and violence in the classroom with strategies and best practices that work in classrooms....

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    • Strategies for Professionals and Communities
    • By: Ruby K. Payne, Philip E. DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith
    • Narrated by: Stephen Begala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Bridges Out of Poverty champions alliances of support, and helps individuals and communities that are ready to break free of poverty. Rather than creating reliance, Bridges' communities create new skills, resources, and motivation. Embraced by tens of thousands of people....

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    • 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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