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Poverty for Profit
- How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor
- By: Anne Kim
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.
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Poverty for Profit
- How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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Tightrope
- 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
- Unabridged
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. With stark...
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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The New Breadline
- Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
- By: Jean-Martin Bauer
- Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The New Breadline is a call to action on the issues of food aid, food security and climate justice, told from the frontlines of hunger. Jean-Martin Bauer eloquently dissects inequity and racism in the humanitarian system, drawing on his Haitian childhood and his career as an aid worker, asking: when decisions about food are being made, who isn't at the table?
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The New Breadline
- Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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The Haves and the Have Nots
- A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why, beyond the idle curiosity, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time.
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Does not delve into why inequalities came about
- By JJ on 19-07-16
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The Haves and the Have Nots
- A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-12-10
- Language: English
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متشرداً في باريس ولندن
- By: جورج أورويل, أسعد يوسف - translator
- Narrated by: محمد نصرالله
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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عندما نسمع اسم "جورج أورويل" لا يخطر ببالنا سوى "مزرعة الحيوان" و"1984" لكن هنا سنقترب من الكاتب الإنسان عبر قصّةٍ تشرده وجوعه في أزقة باريس ولندن، فبعد عودته من بورما...
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متشرداً في باريس ولندن
- Narrated by: محمد نصرالله
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-05-25
- Language: Arabic
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- By: Susan Crabtree, Jedd McFatter, Peter Schweizer - introduction
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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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No Fixed Abode
- Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
- By: Maeve McClenaghan
- Narrated by: Maeve McClenaghan
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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‘A sensitive exposé that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell’ – Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate ‘Urgent, gripping and devastating’ – The Secret Barrister This book will finally give a face and a voice to those we so...
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Heartbreaking and heartwarming
- By Roisin D. on 18-11-20
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No Fixed Abode
- Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
- Narrated by: Maeve McClenaghan
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Really good but narration is off
- By PHILIP HARTY on 23-01-19
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- By: Daniel L. Hatcher
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding.
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 22-02-17
- Language: English
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page 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, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A Gift of Hope
- Helping the Homeless
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, number-one New York Times best-selling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine. For 11 years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked anonymously, visiting the "cribs" of the city's most vulnerable citizens under cover of darkness, distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries.
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A Gift of Hope
- Helping the Homeless
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 30-10-12
- Language: English
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- By: David A. Ansell
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In
The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients.
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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The Economics of Poverty
- History, Measurement, and Policy
- By: Martin Ravallion
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist, and is it inevitable? What can be done to reduce poverty? Can it even be eliminated? The book does not assume that listeners know economics already.
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The Economics of Poverty
- History, Measurement, and Policy
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Black Tax
- Burden or Ubuntu?
- By: Niq Mhlongo
- Narrated by: Sello Sebotsane, Peggy Tunyiswa, SK Tsubane, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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A secret torment for some, a proud responsibility for others, "black tax" is a daily reality for thousands of Black South Africans. In this thought-provoking and moving anthology, a provocative range of voices share their deeply personal stories.
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Black Tax
- Burden or Ubuntu?
- Narrated by: Sello Sebotsane, Peggy Tunyiswa, SK Tsubane, Mark Mwaba, Tshamano Sebe, Chumisa Cosa, Neo Mbabama, Nolifundiso Jamndu
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-08-23
- Language: English
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Will You Care If I Die?
- The international bestseller
- By: Nicolas Lunabba, Henning Koch - translator
- Narrated by: Nikolas Salmon
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A raw, intimate story of trust and betrayal' - A. L. Kennedy, The Guardian 'It's heartbreaking. It's scary. It's beautiful' – Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove Will You Care If I Die? is a powerful memoir about social class, race, friendship and...
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Will You Care If I Die?
- The international bestseller
- Narrated by: Nikolas Salmon
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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El hambre [Hunger]
- By: Martín Caparrós
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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«Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al día. No hay nada más frecuente, más constante, más presente en nuestras vidas que el hambre –y, al mismo tiempo, para muchos de nosotros, nada más lejano que el hambre verdadera.» Para entenderlo, para contarlo, Martín Caparrós recorrió la geografía del hambre, desde la India, Bangladesh, Níger, Kenia y Sudán hasta naciones desarrolladas como Estados Unidos y España.
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El hambre [Hunger]
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: Spanish
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The Hobo
- A History of America's First Climate Migrants
- By: Robert Suits
- Length: Not Yet Known
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The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man is a book written by Nels Anderson, which provides a comprehensive sociological study of the homeless population in America during the early 20th century. The book explores the lives and experiences of "hobos"—a term used to describe homeless men who traveled from place to place in search of work—and sheds light on the social and economic factors that led to their homelessness.
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The Hobo
- A History of America's First Climate Migrants
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 16-06-26
- Language: English
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The Feminist Financial Handbook
- A Modern Woman's Guide to a Wealthy Life
- By: Brynne Conroy
- Narrated by: Pamela Almand
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Find the answers to your money questions. Whether you want to learn more about general financial planning principles or delve into issues that disproportionately affect women, The Feminist Financial Handbook has stories and advice from women who have been there, worked through the struggle, and achieved personal success.
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Targets American and Canadian woman
- By Kindle Customer on 04-08-22
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The Feminist Financial Handbook
- A Modern Woman's Guide to a Wealthy Life
- Narrated by: Pamela Almand
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-10-18
- 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
- Unabridged
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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 and many others of great influence: Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Leo Tolstoy, to name but a few. His analyses and proposals are referred to as "Georgism".
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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: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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