Poverty & Homelessness

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  • Hillbilly Elegy cover art

    • Hillbilly Elegy

    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • Written by: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2016-06-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • Chercher Sam

    • Written by: Sophie Bienvenu
    • Narrated by: Maxime Mailloux
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-14
    • Language: French
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings

    • Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe....

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    • Maid

    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • Written by: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings

    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • When Helping Hurts

    • How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
    • Written by: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
    • Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-29
    • 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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    • The Corner

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • Written by: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • White Poverty

    • How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
    • Written by: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-06
    • Language: English
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    • Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, a leading advocate for the rights of the poor. addresses in White Poverty, a hugely neglected subject that just might provide the key to mitigating racism and bringing together tens of millions of working class and impoverished Americans.

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    • Poverty, by America

    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • Written by: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2012-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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    • Unequal Childhoods

    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • Written by: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2011-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • Nickel and Dimed

    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • Written by: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2004-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • Evicted

    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings

    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • Building Social Business

    • The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
    • Written by: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2010-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • Dignity

    • Seeking Respect in Back Row America
    • Written by: Chris Arnade
    • Narrated by: Donte Bonner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Widely acclaimed writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten - both urban and rural, blue state and red state - and indicts the elitists who've left them behind....

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    • Heartland

    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • Written by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....

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    • Random Family

    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • Written by: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

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    • The Poverty Industry

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

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    • The Great Displacement

    • Climate Change and the Next American Migration
    • Written by: Jake Bittle
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 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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    • Alienated America

    • Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
    • Written by: Timothy P. Carney
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • This hard-hitting analysis identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: It is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life....

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    • Poor

    • Written by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • Thirst

    • A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
    • Written by: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Scott Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 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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