Sociology Poverty

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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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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: 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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    • 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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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • By: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope....

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    • How We Let Grenfell Happen
    • By: Peter Apps
    • Narrated by: Colin Mace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 19-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and died....

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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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    • Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
    • By: Dorceta E. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2020
    • Language: English
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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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    • 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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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Colburn and 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, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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    • Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter....

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    • The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
    • By: Vicky Spratt
    • Narrated by: Vicky Spratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In this fierce and moving account, journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad policy decisions to show how and why the British dream of homeownership has withered and the safety net of social housing has broken....

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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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    • A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
    • By: Monica Potts
    • Narrated by: Monica Potts
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Poignant and unforgettable, The Forgotten Girls is a story of coming of age as the American dream ends - and a new American classic....

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    • By: Henry George
    • Narrated by: Jason Smith
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land...

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    • How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
    • By: Anthony Biglan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....

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    • Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
    • By: Diana Lind
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

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