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Poverty, by America
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in seven Americans live below the poverty line, a line which hasn't shifted over the last fifty years, despite the efforts of successive governments and extensive relief programs. Why is there so much scarcity in this land of dollars? In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it.
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Don’t think it’s about America only
- By Achin J on 25-12-23
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Poverty, by America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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Trapped in America's Safety Net
- One Family’s Struggle
- Written by: Andrea Louise Campbell
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the...
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Trapped in America's Safety Net
- One Family’s Struggle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Alienated America
- Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
- Written by: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics...
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Alienated America
- Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- Written by: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, Bomani Jones - foreword
- Narrated by: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Nearly 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line - about $26,200 for a family of four. Low-income families and individuals are everywhere, from cities to rural communities. While poverty is commonly seen as a personal failure, or a deficiency of character or knowledge, it's actually the result of bad policy. Public policy has purposefully erected barriers that deny access to basic needs, creating a society where people can easily become trapped - not because we lack the resources to lift them out, but because we are actively choosing not to.
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Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- Narrated by: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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The Painful Truth About Hunger in America
- Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again (Food, Health, and the Environment)
- Written by: Mariana Chilton
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Drawing on twenty-five years of research, programming, and advocacy efforts, Mariana Chilton compellingly demonstrates that food insecurity is created and maintained by people in power. Taking the listener back to the original wounds in the United States caused by its history of colonization, genocide, and enslavement, she forces us to reckon with hard questions about why people in the US allow hunger to persist. The Painful Truth about Hunger in America reinvigorates our commitment to uprooting the causes of poverty and discrimination, and points to a more generative and humane world.
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The Painful Truth About Hunger in America
- Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again (Food, Health, and the Environment)
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- Written by: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh,
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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How to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity. A deeply humanizing analysis that will change the way you think about poverty and homelessness—for the socially engaged reader of Isabel...
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Written by: Timothy Noah
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a rhetorical club to be wielded in ideological battles. But this Great Divergence may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes.
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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Under the Affluence
- Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich, and Sacrificing the Future of America
- Written by: Tim Wise
- Narrated by: Tim Wise
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Tim Wise is one of America's most prolific public intellectuals. His critically acclaimed books, high-profile media interviews, and year-round speaking schedule have established him as an invaluable voice in any discussion on issues of race and multicultural democracy. In Under the Affluence, Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need.
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Under the Affluence
- Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich, and Sacrificing the Future of America
- Narrated by: Tim Wise
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- Written by: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)...
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- Written by: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 30-05-17
- Language: English
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$2.00 a Day
- Living on Almost Nothing in America
- Written by: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day. That figure, the World Bank measure of poverty, is hard to imagine in this country - most of us spend more than that before we get to work or school in the morning.
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$2.00 a Day
- Living on Almost Nothing in America
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 01-09-15
- Language: English
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The Politics of Inequality
- A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
- Written by: Michael J. Thompson
- Narrated by: David Stampone
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.
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The Politics of Inequality
- A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
- Narrated by: David Stampone
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 23-07-09
- Language: English
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Great Society
- A New History
- Written by: Amity Shlaes
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges. ""Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high hopes and...
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Great Society
- A New History
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Motherland
- A Memoir
- Written by: Paula Ramón, Julia Sanches - translator, Jennifer Shyue - translator
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. Reporter Paula Ramón experienced the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family saw their quality of life deteriorate. Public services no longer functioned. Money lost its value. Her mother couldn’t afford to buy food, which was increasingly scarce. The once-prosperous country fell into ruin. Like many others, Ramón’s family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they love.
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Motherland
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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The Myth That Made Us
- How False Beliefs About Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
- Written by: Jeff Fuhrer
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narratives—of a supposedly post-racist nation, of the self-made man, of the primacy of profit- and shareholder value—maximizing for businesses, and of minimal government interference—have been used to excuse gross inequities and to shape and sustain the US economic system that delivers them. Jeff Fuhrer argues that systemic racism continues to produce vastly disparate outcomes and that our brand of capitalism favors doing little to reduce disparities.
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The Myth That Made Us
- How False Beliefs About Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- Written by: Susan Crabtree, Jedd McFatter, Peter Schweizer - introduction
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California. Take a close look at today’s Democratic Party power brokers and you’ll quickly realize most of them share one thing in...
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 11-03-25
- Language: English
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Written by: Emily Guendelsberger
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor. "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age" —Salon After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon...
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- By Shipra on 09-06-20
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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Toxic Inequality
- How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
- Written by: Thomas M. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a 10th that of White Americans, and over recent decades, White families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of Black families. In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities - a dangerous combination he terms "toxic inequality".
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Toxic Inequality
- How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- Written by: Chris Arnade
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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"Candid, empathetic portraits of silenced men, women, and children." --Kirkus Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind...
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Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Guest
- How a Homeless Man from the Streets of L.A. Redefined Our Home
- Written by: Michael Konik
- Narrated by: George W. Sarris
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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For years, "Fisher King Mike" wandered the streets of LA, preaching to his people. On occasion, he'd share an open mic night with Michael Konik, who befriended the homeless man at a distance and offered a confused but sympathetic ear when the Fisher King lamented having to be so far away from his wife, Selena Gomez, and their several children. As the pair began to cautiously trust one another, confusion and distance gave way to friendship, and what came next astounded them both.
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The Unexpected Guest
- How a Homeless Man from the Streets of L.A. Redefined Our Home
- Narrated by: George W. Sarris
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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