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The Poverty Paradox
- Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
- By: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? One of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer....
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61. The Poverty Paradox
- Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-25-23
- Language: English
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Unequal Childhoods
- Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
- By: Annette Lareau
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....
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Essential reading for everyone
- By Jared on 10-09-12
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62. Unequal Childhoods
- Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-14-11
- Language: English
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- By: Viri Ríos, Ray Campos
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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¿El pobre es pobre porque quiere? ¿Los jóvenes son más flojos que antes y por eso ganan menos? ¿Quienes reciben programas sociales los gastan en tonterías? ¿Los estados del norte trabajan más que los del sur? ¿Tu jefe ya no te puede subir el sueldo?
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bastante ilustrador del panorama de desigualdad en México
- By Juan Vazquez-Montejo on 12-22-24
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63. Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-13-24
- Language: Spanish
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Toxic Communities
- Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
- By: Dorceta E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards....
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Excellent Exposure of Prejudice When It Comes To Environmental Factors
- By lighten79 on 07-11-24
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64. Toxic Communities
- Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- By: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- By Cynthia on 07-28-12
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65. The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-19-11
- Language: English
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Equality
- What It Means and Why It Matters
- By: Thomas Piketty, Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart, Stephen Graybill
- Length: 4 hrs
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In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us.
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66. Equality
- What It Means and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart, Stephen Graybill
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 01-21-25
- Language: English
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Bridges Out of Poverty
- Strategies for Professionals and Communities
- By: Philip E. DeVol, Ruby K. Payne, Terie Dreussi Smith
- Narrated by: Tom Blair, Philip DeVol
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals....
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Couldn't pause, awesome approach to bridging the gap.
- By Lamar on 08-28-16
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67. Bridges Out of Poverty
- Strategies for Professionals and Communities
- Narrated by: Tom Blair, Philip DeVol
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-03-14
- Language: English
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- By: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....
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Get really inside Las Vegas
- By cosmitron on 07-08-18
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68. Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- By: Ted Conover
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Conover chronicles his impressions of their lives in this fascinating piece of first-hand reporting that becomes a thoughtful story of self-discovery....
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Had potential, but fell short.
- By Evan on 01-06-12
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69. Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-17-08
- Language: English
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Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- By: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Narrated by: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed....
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A Story Seldom Told
- By Tigerron Wells on 05-04-20
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70. Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- Narrated by: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-12-19
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- By: Henry George
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement....
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71. Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-28-22
- Language: English
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Fear of Falling
- The Inner Life of the Middle Class
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century....
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- By marilyn wiles lewis on 11-23-24
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72. Fear of Falling
- The Inner Life of the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-07-20
- Language: English
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I Can't Breathe
- A Killing on Bay Street
- By: Matt Taibbi
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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A riveting work of literary journalism that explores the infamous police killing of Eric Garner - from the New York Times best-selling author of The Divide....
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I had no idea!
- By connie on 11-01-17
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73. I Can't Breathe
- A Killing on Bay Street
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-24-17
- Language: English
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Three Tenant Families
- By: James Agee
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South....
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Well crafted work of art.
- By J. DavidMcGirt on 04-22-16
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74. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Three Tenant Families
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-10-15
- Language: English
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The Blue Sweater
- Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
- By: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....
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A Heartfelt Testament
- By Gallantly Rabbit! on 01-23-11
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75. The Blue Sweater
- Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-10-10
- Language: English
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The Divide
- American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- By: Matt Taibbi
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail....
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But still it seems no-one will act
- By TM on 05-14-14
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76. The Divide
- American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-08-14
- Language: English
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....
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Bravery
- By Takeyla D. on 08-08-24
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77. A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-22-22
- Language: English
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Charity Detox
- What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
- By: Robert D. Lupton
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....
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a must-read for everyone hoping to help the poor
- By Amazon Customer on 04-16-20
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78. Charity Detox
- What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-31-20
- Language: English
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Wealth and Poverty
- A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
- By: George F. Gilder
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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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 Original is a Classic
- By Jake on 11-26-13
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79. Wealth and Poverty
- A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-21-12
- Language: English
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Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- By: Chris Arnade
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Widely acclaimed 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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Sobering & Eye Opening
- By James Ventura on 07-17-19
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80. Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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