Urban 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 856 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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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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    • 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 5,988 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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    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • By: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

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    • 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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    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

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    • Raising Kane
    • By: Darrien Lee
    • Narrated by: Ryan Nikko
    • Series: Denim Diaries Series, Book 5
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander is growing up in a single-parent home after her mother abandons the family. Her father is forced to take on two jobs to support his family, and the responsibility of caring for her two younger siblings is placed on Kane....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • 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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    • By: Jack London
    • Narrated by: John Stanbridge
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • "The People of the Abyss" (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the...

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    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • By: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

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    • Americans Reaching for Hope
    • By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

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    • A New Mother's Search for Home
    • By: Lauren Sandler
    • Narrated by: Lauren Sandler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • From an award-winning journalist Lauren Sandler, This Is All I Got is a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America....

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    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....

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