State Poverty

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    • How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
    • By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 848 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 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 Worldview that Makes the Underclass
    • By: Theodore Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 405 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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    • A History of Social Welfare in America
    • By: Walter I. Trattner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign
    • By: William J. Barber II - foreword, Liz Theoharis - editor
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible proclaims justice and abundance for the poor. Yet these powerful passages about poverty are frequently overlooked and misinterpreted....

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968
    • By: Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it.

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    • What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
    • By: Paul Polak
    • Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kathryn Ma
    • Narrated by: James Chen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet....

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    • Three Tenant Families
    • By: James Agee
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South....

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    • Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
    • By: Ted Conover
    • Narrated by: Ted Conover
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Conover chronicles his impressions of their lives in this fascinating piece of first-hand reporting that becomes a thoughtful story of self-discovery....

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    • By: Oscar Zeta Acosta
    • Narrated by: Henry Levya
    • Series: "Dr. Gonzo", Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a huge appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Anne Rivers Siddons
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • From best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society....

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    • Reimagining Discarded America
    • By: Michelle Wilde Anderson
    • Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Urban law expert and author Michelle Wilde Anderson offers a sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership.

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    • By: Matthew O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....

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