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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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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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Regulating the Poor
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-21
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81. Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Making Room
- Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth
- By: Carl Siciliano
- Narrated by: Carl Siciliano
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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From the founder of the nation’s largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ youth, a tender, uplifting account of his friendship with a nonbinary teenager and dozens of queer kids who inspired him to live a life of service and resistance....
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Wake up and help!
- By MolllyT on 06-28-24
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82. Making Room
- Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth
- Narrated by: Carl Siciliano
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-21-24
- Language: English
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Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- By: Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....
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Narrated like a children's story tale
- By Rahul on 05-18-16
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83. Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-23-13
- Language: English
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A Gift of Hope
- Helping the Homeless
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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For 11 years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco....
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hope!!
- By Daphne on 11-26-12
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84. A Gift of Hope
- Helping the Homeless
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-30-12
- Language: English
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Brave New Home
- Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
- By: Diana Lind
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....
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Political activism & historical revisionism
- By Brandon on 10-20-20
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85. Brave New Home
- Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- By: Emily Guendelsberger
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....
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wow you need to hear this
- By Irksum Ink on 09-28-19
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86. On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-16-19
- Language: English
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The Idealist
- Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
- By: Nina Munk
- Narrated by: Susan Nezami
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty....
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Sachs tries hard but the system is not there
- By Amazon Customer on 11-13-15
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87. The Idealist
- Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
- Narrated by: Susan Nezami
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-10-13
- Language: English
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Scratch Beginnings
- Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
- By: Adam Shepard
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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What can you get with 25 dollars and a dream....
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Missing a lot...
- By David Hunter on 03-05-13
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88. Scratch Beginnings
- Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-21-11
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Toby Scott McLellan
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day....
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Worst narration of any Audible book
- By Helen R. Planchak on 01-03-23
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89. A Christmas Carol
- Narrated by: Toby Scott McLellan
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-17-19
- Language: English
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You Ought to Do a Story About Me
- Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
- By: Ted Jackson
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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The heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the transformative friendship binding a fallen-from-grace NFL player and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who meet on the streets of New Orleans, offering a rare glimpse into the precarious world of homelessness....
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Good Book Hard Listen
- By Mr. E Man on 01-10-24
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90. You Ought to Do a Story About Me
- Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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El hambre [Hunger]
- By: Martín Caparrós
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
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«Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al día. No hay nada más frecuente, más constante, más presente en nuestras vidas que el hambre–y, al mismo tiempo, para muchos de nosotros, nada más lejano que el hambreverdadera.»
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91. El hambre [Hunger]
- Narrated by: Javier Gómez
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-16-24
- Language: Spanish
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- By: Ted Conover
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Had potential, but fell short.
- By Evan on 01-06-12
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92. Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-17-08
- Language: English
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A Gift from Bob
- How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas
- By: James Bowen
- Narrated by: Kris Milnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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In this poignant new story, A Gift from Bob, James Bowen recalls the last Christmas he was to spend on the streets, busking and selling the Big Issue with his cat Bob....
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not as good as the first two books
- By Piano Teacher on 07-16-21
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93. A Gift from Bob
- How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas
- Narrated by: Kris Milnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- By: Chris Arnade
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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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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Sobering & Eye Opening
- By James Ventura on 07-17-19
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94. Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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Fear of Falling
- The Inner Life of the Middle Class
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century....
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95. Fear of Falling
- The Inner Life of the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-07-20
- Language: English
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Reframing Poverty
- New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge
- By: Eric Meade
- Narrated by: Bob Brill
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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We typically view poverty as a technical problem that we can solve with more money, more technology, and more volunteers. But there is an adaptive side to the problem of poverty, as well....
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96. Reframing Poverty
- New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge
- Narrated by: Bob Brill
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-26-21
- Language: English
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London Labour and the London Poor
- By: Henry Mayhew
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
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London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....
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THE BEST BOOK ON VICTORIAN LONDON
- By Count B on 06-06-20
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97. London Labour and the London Poor
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-30-18
- Language: English
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