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  • Damnation Island cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 15-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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....

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  • Poor cover art

    • Poor

    • By: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....

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    • Poor Economics

    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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  • Unequal Childhoods cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 14-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • Enough

    • Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
    • By: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2009
    • Language: English
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    • For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide.....

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    • Thirst

    • A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
    • By: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Scott Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....

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    • Building Social Business

    • The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
    • By: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this book, Yunus traces the development of the social business idea and explains its lessons for entrepreneurs, social activists, and policy makers....

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  • London Labour and the London Poor cover art

    • London Labour and the London Poor

    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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  • "They Just Need to Get a Job" cover art

    • "They Just Need to Get a Job"

    • 15 Myths on Homelessness
    • By: Mary Brosnahan
    • Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • For fans of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors.

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  • The Economics of Poverty cover art

    • The Economics of Poverty

    • History, Measurement, and Policy
    • By: Martin Ravallion
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries.

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    • The Corner

    • 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: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 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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  • The Social Distance Between Us cover art

    • The Social Distance Between Us

    • How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most....

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  • Así no es [It's Not Like That] cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 13-08-2024
    • Language: Spanish
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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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  • The Great Displacement cover art

    • The Great Displacement

    • Climate Change and the Next American Migration
    • By: Jake Bittle
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.

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  • Bob cover art

    • Bob

    • No Ordinary Cat
    • By: James Bowen
    • Narrated by: Alistair McGowan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change....

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  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty cover art

    • A Framework for Understanding Poverty

    • A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
    • By: Ruby K. Payne PhD
    • Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....

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  • Homeless by Choice cover art

    • Homeless by Choice

    • A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness
    • By: Roy Juarez Jr.
    • Narrated by: Roy Juarez Jr.
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • At the age of 14 years old, Roy found himself homeless due to domestic violence. He moved from house to house to survive. With only a duffle bag to call home, he was at the mercy of the streets. After navigating his way to college, Roy swore to never return to that life again.

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  • Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 28-06-2022
    • Language: English
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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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  • When Helping Hurts cover art

    • When Helping Hurts

    • How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
    • By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
    • Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....

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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
    • Release date: 22-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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