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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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 307 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 279 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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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    • Moving from Affluence to Generosity
    • By: Ron Sider
    • Narrated by: Dave Heath
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978....

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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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    • By: Adi Alsaid
    • Narrated by: Amanda Cobb
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost....

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    • What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
    • By: Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2020
    • Language: English
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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 Sustainable Solutions
    • By: Barry Asmus, Wayne Grudem
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Economist Barry Asmus and theologian Wayne Grudem have teamed up to outline a robust proposal for fighting poverty on a national level.....

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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: 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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    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: George F. Gilder
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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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