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Grace Can Lead Us Home
- A Christian Call to End Homelessness
- By: Kevin Nye
- Narrated by: Kevin Nye
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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On any given night, more than half a million Americans and Canadians find themselves sleeping on the streets, in shelters, cars, and other places not meant for human habitation. Yet as this crisis continues to grow, it remains one of the least talked about—especially in churches. Kevin Nye introduces listeners to the Christ he’s met in tents, shelters, and drop-in centers. He demystifies homelessness by journeying into complex issues like affordable housing, mental illness, addiction, and more, while reimagining our theological approach to these matters.
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Grace Can Lead Us Home
- A Christian Call to End Homelessness
- Narrated by: Kevin Nye
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-07-22
- Language: English
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Who Killed My Father
- By: Édouard Louis
- Narrated by: Edouard Louis
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum - of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely 50 years old, who can hardly walk or breathe: “You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.
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Who Killed My Father
- Narrated by: Edouard Louis
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-06-19
- Language: English
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Delta Epiphany
- Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
- By: Ellen B. Meacham
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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In Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit to the Mississippi Delta, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed.
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Delta Epiphany
- Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-12-18
- Language: English
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The Inclusive Economy
- How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
- By: Michael D. Tanner
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives, Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, looks at the reasons for poverty in America and offers a detailed agenda for increasing wealth, incomes, and opportunity. The author argues that conservative critiques of a “culture of poverty” fail to account for the structural circumstances in which the poor live, especially racism, gender discrimination, and economic dislocation. However, he also criticizes liberal calls for fighting poverty through redistribution or new government programs.
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The Inclusive Economy
- How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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Workin' Our Way Home
- The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
- By: Ron Hall
- Narrated by: Barry Scott, Daniel Butler
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared...
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A beautiful book, I couldn't put it down.
- By Michael on 03-03-19
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Workin' Our Way Home
- The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
- Narrated by: Barry Scott, Daniel Butler
- Series: Same Kind of Different as Me, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-02-18
- Language: English
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Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- By: Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies. Their radical message has huge consequences for economists, development NGOs and anti-poverty campaigners worldwide. There are vital lessons here not only for Southeast Asia, but for Africa, Eastern Europe, and anyone who cares that the effort to eradicate poverty is more than just good intentions.
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insightful and myth busting!
- By Ashutosh Kumar on 14-04-17
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Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-08-13
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
- Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
- By: Thomas J. Sugrue
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s.
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
- Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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Brave New Home
- Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
- By: Diana Lind
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted...
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Brave New Home
- Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- By: Matt Zwolinski, Miranda Perry Fleischer
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The motivating idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is radically simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. But does this simple idea have the potential to radically transform our society? This book provides the average citizen with all the information they need to understand current debates about the UBI. It recounts the history of the idea, from its origins in the writings of eighteenth century radical intellectuals to contemporary discussions centered on unemployment caused by technological advances such as artificial intelligence.
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Universal Basic Income
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- By: Jacob A. Riis
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure.
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-09-22
- Language: English
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Toxic Inequality
- How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
- By: Thomas M. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a 10th that of White Americans, and over recent decades, White families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of Black families. In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities - a dangerous combination he terms "toxic inequality".
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Toxic Inequality
- How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Bittersweet Lane
- Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
- By: Jamie Madden
- Narrated by: Jamie Madden
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works—or why it’s failing. Bittersweet Lane is the first book to demystify America’s housing crisis from both a professional and deeply personal perspective. Spanning from Ireland to America, from the Bittersweet Lane Apartments to M.I.T., Bittersweet Lane also carries the stories and deep scars of intergenerational poverty while offering a bold vision for change.
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Bittersweet Lane
- Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Jamie Madden
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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The American Way of Eating
- Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
- By: Tracie McMillan
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost-which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters.
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Good content, bad medium
- By ACD on 30-09-14
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The American Way of Eating
- Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 30-04-12
- Language: English
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Broke, USA
- From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business
- By: Gary Rivlin
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries—the business of poverty. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the “poverty industry” that will also appeal to readers...
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Broke, USA
- From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-08-10
- Language: English
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Will the Boat Sink the Water
- The Life of China's Peasants
- By: Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the 15th century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?
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Will the Boat Sink the Water
- The Life of China's Peasants
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-11-09
- Language: English
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Beggars of Life
- By: Jim Tully
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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From the opening conversation on a railroad trestle, Beggars of Life rattles along like the Fast Flyer Virginia that Tully boards midway through the story. This is the book that defined Tully’s hard-boiled style and set the pattern for the 12 books that followed over the next two decades. Startling in its originality and intensity, Beggars of Life is a breakneck journey made while clinging to the lowest rungs of the social ladder.
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Unlistenable
- By Jason W. on 19-10-23
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Beggars of Life
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 16-12-21
- Language: English
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The Lost and the Found
- A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances
- By: Kevin Fagan
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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A “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope. Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness for decades and has spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting. In The Lost and the...
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The Lost and the Found
- A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-02-25
- Language: English
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American Poverty
- By: Laurel A. Rockefeller
- Narrated by: Alex Freeman
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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In this thought-provoking historical and economic analysis, Laurel A. Rockefeller takes on poverty culture head-on, exploring what it means to be poor in the United States. She also takes a look at how America's closest, and much more economically successful, allies (Canada, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom) take care of their poor.
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A controversial listen
- By Janalyn on 02-04-21
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American Poverty
- Narrated by: Alex Freeman
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Adverse Events
- Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
- By: Jill A. Fisher
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 13 hrs
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This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials.
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Adverse Events
- Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- By: Vicki Sokolik
- Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends’ couches, in parks, or on the streets. Their official designation is “unaccompanied homeless youth”—they are not "runaways" breaking free from strict parenting; these are kids seeking safety. They have escaped abusive parents, have been abandoned, or have never had a home to begin with.
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Excellent...heroes of all kinds...
- By Jackie on 23-03-24
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If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
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