Social Poverty

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    • Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
    • De: Mark Robert Rank
    • Narrado por: Barry Abrams
    • Duración: 6 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-25-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? One of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer....

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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    • De: Katherine Applegate
    • Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
    • Duración: 3 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-22-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 calificaciones
    • Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent, and not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again....

    Precio regular: $16.20 o 1 crédito

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    • Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    • De: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
    • Duración: 21 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-05-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 728 calificaciones
    • Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....

    Precio regular: $24.75 o 1 crédito

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    • A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances
    • De: Kevin Fagan
    • Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Duración: 7 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-11-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic.

    Precio regular: $14.99 o 1 crédito

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    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • De: George F. Gilder
    • Narrado por: Grover Gardner
    • Duración: 15 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-21-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $19.74 o 1 crédito

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    • Americans Reaching for Hope
    • De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Narrado por: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
    • Duración: 9 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-14-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $18.00 o 1 crédito

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • De: Ben Austen
    • Narrado por: Ron Butler
    • Duración: 13 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 calificaciones
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

    Precio regular: $26.99 o 1 crédito

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    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • De: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
    • Duración: 8 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-17-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 189 calificaciones
    • After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....

    Precio regular: $20.25 o 1 crédito

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • De: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Duración: 25 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-06-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 307 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $29.25 o 1 crédito

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    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • De: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrado por: Sarah Smarsh
    • Duración: 9 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 978 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $19.49 o 1 crédito

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    • Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
    • De: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
    • Duración: 9 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-04-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 calificaciones
    • For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American....

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrado por: Adam Verner
    • Duración: 6 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-21-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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    • How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
    • De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
    • Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
    • Duración: 9 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-29-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 calificaciones
    • Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....

    Precio regular: $19.95 o 1 crédito

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    • What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime
    • De: Jared Klickstein, Michael Schellenberger - foreword
    • Narrado por: Graham Rowat
    • Duración: 11 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-25-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • Crooked Smile details one man's journey that left him homeless on Skid Row, and what it took to escape a decade of addiction.

    Precio regular: $21.49 o 1 crédito

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    • A New History
    • De: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrado por: Terence Aselford
    • Duración: 17 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-19-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 384 calificaciones
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....

    Precio regular: $33.29 o 1 crédito

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    • De: Karl Popper
    • Narrado por: Martyn Swain
    • Duración: 5 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-30-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 calificaciones
    • Karl Popper's THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century....

    Precio regular: $15.99 o 1 crédito

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    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
    • Duración: 20 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-18-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 calificaciones
    • 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….

    Precio regular: $24.75 o 1 crédito

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    • A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
    • De: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Jeff Hobbs
    • Duración: 9 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-04-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • A single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggles to keep her family together and her children in school amidst the devastating housing crisis.

    Precio regular: $19.49 o 1 crédito

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    • Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
    • De: Benjamin Herold
    • Narrado por: Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith
    • Duración: 13 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-23-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 calificaciones
    • Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools....

    Precio regular: $20.25 o 1 crédito

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    • Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
    • De: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, Andrijana Bilbija - contributor
    • Narrado por: Kevin F. Adler
    • Duración: 9 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-07-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....

    Precio regular: $28.82 o 1 crédito

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