Social Welfare

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    • A History of Social Welfare in America
    • By: Walter I. Trattner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends in social welfare....

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    • Beginner’s Friendly Guidebook About the Art of Psychological Welfare, Deception, Manipulation, and Everything You Need to Know About Social Engineering
    • By: Seth Manson
    • Narrated by: Steve Hapkins
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-21-21
    • Language: English
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    • Are you curious about how you can do social engineering so that your community will agree with you and with what you think? This audiobook can address that. Yes, you can manipulate other people and the community as a whole like you....

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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 1,575 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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    • 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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    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

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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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    • Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
    • By: Ai-jen Poo
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Age of Dignity maps an integrated set of solutions to address America's new demographic and economic realities....

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    • By: Peter Singer
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • For the first time since its original publication, Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment....

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    • The Color of Child Welfare
    • By: Dorothy Roberts
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, Dorothy Roberts
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely Black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children....

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    • How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
    • By: Dorothy Roberts
    • Narrated by: Dorothy Roberts, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change....

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    • How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires' Pockets - and What You Can Do About It
    • By: Phil Harvey, Lisa Conyers, David Boaz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Welfare for the Rich describes and analyzes the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts - subsidies, grants, tax credits, loan guarantees, price supports, and many other payouts - to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run....

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    • Short and Simple Explanation Series - Book 2
    • By: Louis Bevoc
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • This book is part of a series that provides short and simple explanations of different professions. It focuses on the profession of social work. It...

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    • An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Melanie Joy PhD, Yuval Noah Harari - foreword
    • Narrated by: Heather Wynne
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 08-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others....

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    • The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
    • By: Matthew Scully
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In a crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong....

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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    • Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
    • By: David Sloan Wilson
    • Narrated by: Stuart Appleton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society....

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    • Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
    • By: Ingrid Newkirk, Gene Stone
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way....

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    • Unloved as a Girl, Abused as a Woman - the True Story of Ava’s Fight for Survival
    • By: Ava Thomas, Toni Maguire
    • Narrated by: Katy Sobey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Ava Thomas knew leaving was the right decision. Trapped and manipulated in her relationship, and after yet another violent beating whilst she was pregnant, Ava was helped to a women's refuge with her children....

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    • How to Build Extraordinary Relationships by Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network
    • By: Jason Treu
    • Narrated by: Anne Marie Silvey
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Everything we create in life is with or through other people. No one does it alone....

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