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    • But Populism Could Kill It
    • By: Michael R. Strain
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can't get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying....

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    • General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
    • By: Edward McClelland
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In a time of great inequality and a gutted middle class, the dramatic story of “the strike heard around the world” is a testament to what workers can gain when they stand up for their rights.

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    • How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
    • By: Aaron Glantz
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class...

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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • The Rise of Progressive Economics
    • By: Michael Tomasky
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In the first half of the twentieth century the Keynesian brand of economics, which saw government spending as a necessary spur to economic growth, prevailed. Then in the 1970s, conservatives fought back....

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    • By: Edward N. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding wealth in the United States - who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it - is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation....

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    • How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
    • By: Robert H Frank
    • Narrated by: Robert H Frank
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances....

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    • How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World
    • By: Michèle Lamont
    • Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Acclaimed Harvard sociologist makes the case for reexamining what we value to prioritize recognition—the quest for respect—in an age that has been defined by growing inequality and the obsolescence of the American dream....

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    • Achieve Financial Independence with $500 a Month
    • By: Sanjay Jaybhay
    • Narrated by: Brian J. Callanan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Invest and Grow Rich is a factually-based personal finance “boot camp” that offers easy-to-follow concepts that will appeal to those seeking approachable solutions to managing budgets and assets....

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    • Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
    • By: Martin Gilens
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy....

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    • The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class
    • By: Jim Tankersley
    • Narrated by: Jim Tankersley, Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • For over a decade, Jim Tankersley has been on a journey to understand what the hell happened to the world's greatest middle-class success story - the post-World-War-II boom that faded into decades of stagnation and frustration for American workers....

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    • How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back
    • By: Lou Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Lou Dobbs
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • With War on the Middle Class, Lou Dobbs takes an impassioned and rousing stance on the all-out class war that is turning the American dream into a nightmare....

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    • Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
    • By: Joan C. Williams
    • Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class....

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    • The Next Economy and America’s Future
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert Reich
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 643 ratings
    • While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top....

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    • End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation
    • By: Peter Georgescu, David Dorsey
    • Narrated by: Wes Bleed
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam....

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    • How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
    • By: David Stebenne
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A groundbreaking work of history about the American middle class - its rise, why it faltered, and who truly benefited from its dominance....

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    • Lost and Found: Restoring our Middle Class Before the World Blows By
    • By: Peter D. Kiernan
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core has struggled....

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    • By: J. L. Barkas
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The audiobook will be the second edition of Single in America by J.L. Barkas, considered a classic by a sociologist about the various types of singles....

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