Welfare State

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    • An Intellectual History
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Kevin Deiber
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook examines the history of ideas regarding welfare economics, and in particular the American welfare state.

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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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    • The Welfare Grind Series, Book 3
    • By: Kendall Banks
    • Narrated by: Rhyan Neco
    • Series: Welfare Grind, Book 3
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • After surviving another attempt on her life, Keema Newell proves that a true hustler never dies. As a ghetto superstar and queen of the streets, she struggles to put the pieces of her life back together, while trying to tame her now notorious daughter, Treasure....

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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 1,577 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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    • How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires' Pockets - and What You Can Do About It
    • By: Phil Harvey, Lisa Conyers, David Boaz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 412 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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    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 116 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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    • How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State
    • By: Hilary Cottam
    • Narrated by: Hilary Cottam
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty and provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges. Our resources have changed....

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    • Individual Rights and the Welfare State
    • By: David Kelley
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government....

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    • By: Laraine Lebron
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Lucy Hickey-Rios has loved animals her entire life, and that is why she works so hard as the Executive Director of Mercy Animal Shelter. Mercy is ...

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    • Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
    • By: Alan Greenspan
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • 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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    • Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Janet M. Davis
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
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    • In The Gospel of Kindness, Janet M. Davis explores the broad cultural and social influence of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War....

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    • By: Steve Anwyll
    • Narrated by: Don Moretti
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Welfare is wholly made up of four-line paragraphs and has a cadence that is uniquely its own. A high school student leaves his parents’ home to live on his own with friends and with the help of government aid. The narrator becomes your best friend on the first chapter....

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    • And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth, and Happiness
    • By: Graeme Garrard
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
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    • Graeme Garrard makes a powerful case for the state as our only realistic hope of countering the rising power of multinational corporations, organized crime, and international organizations that will always put their own interests first....

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    • Hope, Dreams, and Immortality
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book investigates the thesis that despite America lacking a world-leading welfare state, America and its cultural desire for individual immortality may give Americans more psychological benefits than Europeans get in their welfare states....

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    • The Development of the American Social Welfare State in the Era of Trump and Bernie Sanders
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Steve Boyd
    • Length: 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-19
    • Language: English
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    • This book is the fourth volume of a study on the development of the American social welfare state since 1934....

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