Social Welfare

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    • The Worldview that Makes the Underclass
    • Written by: Theodore Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Here is a searing account - probably the best yet published - of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does....

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    • An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • Written by: Melanie Joy PhD, Yuval Noah Harari - foreword
    • Narrated by: Heather Wynne
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 2020-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others....

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    • 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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    • The Definitive Edition
    • Written by: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

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    • 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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    • Written by: Peter Singer
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For the first time since its original publication, Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment....

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    • How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires' Pockets - and What You Can Do About It
    • Written by: Phil Harvey, Lisa Conyers, David Boaz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Welfare for the Rich describes and analyzes the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts - subsidies, grants, tax credits, loan guarantees, price supports, and many other payouts - to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run....

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    • Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
    • Written by: Ai-jen Poo
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2015-04-28
    • Language: English
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    • The Age of Dignity maps an integrated set of solutions to address America's new demographic and economic realities....

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    • Written by: Evan Stark
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone.

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    • How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
    • Written by: Dorothy Roberts
    • Narrated by: Dorothy Roberts, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-05
    • Language: English
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    • An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change....

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    • Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
    • Written by: Ingrid Newkirk, Gene Stone
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way....

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • Written by: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-06
    • Language: English
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    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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    • The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
    • Written by: Matthew Scully
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-04
    • Language: English
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    • In a crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong....

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    • Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
    • Written by: Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Most books about the environmental crisis are densely academic, depressingly doom-laden, and crammed with impersonal statistics. We Are the Weather is different--accessible, immediate, and with a single clear solution that individual readers can put into practice straight away....

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    • A History of Social Welfare in America
    • Written by: Walter I. Trattner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-05
    • Language: English
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    • The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends in social welfare....

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    • Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
    • Written by: Alan Greenspan
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2013-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting....

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    • Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
    • Written by: David Sloan Wilson
    • Narrated by: Stuart Appleton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-02
    • Language: English
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    • A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society....

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