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  • Hillbilly Elegy Audiobook By J. D. Vance cover art

    • Hillbilly Elegy

    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58,953 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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  • Poverty, by America Audiobook By Matthew Desmond cover art

    • Poverty, by America

    • 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 825 ratings

    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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  • Evicted Audiobook By Matthew Desmond cover art

    • Evicted

    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,977 ratings

    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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  • Maid Audiobook By Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword cover art

    • Maid

    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,704 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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  • Invisible Child Audiobook By Andrea Elliott cover art

    • Invisible Child

    • Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 703 ratings

    • 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....

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  • Nickel and Dimed Audiobook By Barbara Ehrenreich cover art

    • Nickel and Dimed

    • 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 1,566 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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  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty Audiobook By Ruby K. Payne PhD cover art

    • A Framework for Understanding Poverty

    • A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
    • By: Ruby K. Payne PhD
    • Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings

    • With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....

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  • White Poverty Audiobook By Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor cover art

    • White Poverty

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 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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  • Rough Sleepers Audiobook By Tracy Kidder cover art

    • Rough Sleepers

    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • By: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings

    • 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....

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  • Unequal Childhoods Audiobook By Annette Lareau cover art

    • Unequal Childhoods

    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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  • A Mother's Job Audiobook By Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove cover art

    • A Mother's Job

    • From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
    • By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....

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  • Same Kind of Different as Me Audiobook By Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor cover art

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  • When Helping Hurts Audiobook By Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert cover art

    • When Helping Hurts

    • How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
    • By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
    • Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings

    • Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....

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  • The Corner Audiobook By David Simon, Edward Burns cover art

    • The Corner

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings

    • 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....

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  • Random Family Audiobook By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc cover art

    • Random Family

    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • 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….

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  • $2.00 a Day Audiobook By Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer cover art

    • $2.00 a Day

    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 688 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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  • Poor Economics Audiobook By Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo cover art

    • Poor Economics

    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 936 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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  • The Road to Wigan Pier Audiobook By George Orwell cover art

    • The Road to Wigan Pier

    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670 ratings
    • When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences....

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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers Audiobook By Katherine Boo cover art

    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • By: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,282 ratings

    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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  • The Great Displacement Audiobook By Jake Bittle cover art

    • The Great Displacement

    • Climate Change and the Next American Migration
    • By: Jake Bittle
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings

    • Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.

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