Social Poverty

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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. 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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    • 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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    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects firsthand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • By: Raynor Winn
    • Narrated by: Raynor Winn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 19-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood....

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    • By: Ann Braden
    • Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus....

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    • Strategies for Professionals and Communities
    • By: Ruby K. Payne, Philip E. DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith
    • Narrated by: Stephen Begala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Bridges Out of Poverty champions alliances of support, and helps individuals and communities that are ready to break free of poverty. Rather than creating reliance, Bridges' communities create new skills, resources, and motivation. Embraced by tens of thousands of people....

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    • Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects firsthand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain....

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    • The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
    • By: Daniel L. Hatcher
    • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....

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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: 14-03-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • By: Dusti Bowling
    • Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully....

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    • 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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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....

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    • 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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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • In this unabridged, enlightening and often shocking expose of life on the streets of two of Europe's most romanticised and celebrated cities, Orwell describes in detail the day-to-day life of a 'down-and-out'....

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    • The Elite Charade of Changing the World
    • By: Anand Giridharadas
    • Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their position at the top....

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