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    • Confessions of a Welfare Mom
    • By: B. Morrison
    • Narrated by: B. Morrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother....

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    • How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems
    • By: William Eggers, Paul Macmillan
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems....

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    • By: Beate Chelette
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Chelette, a trainer, coach, and speaker imparts her proprietary strategies that can take any woman from being overwhelmed to awesome....

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    • Why We Go Back to Where We Come From
    • By: Kamal Al-Solaylee
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family....

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    • Shameless Dirty Tricks to Beat the System and Stay Alive!
    • By: Skip Goebel
    • Narrated by: Joseph Miller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For sure - this is the cancer book for rednecks! Only someone who survived boot camp would even understand. Twenty-six years of brain cancer makes me infinitely qualified to speak on survival. I hope the audible gives it justice....

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    • Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Maya Schenwar
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans....

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    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor...there is almost no debate in the scientific community. This audiobook examines the science behind today’s most contentious debates....

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    • How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
    • By: Anya Kamenetz
    • Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net—the public school system—was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first....

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    • Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....

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    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Byron Taylor
    • Series: Celebrated Crimes, Book 13-15
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-18
    • Language: English
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    • Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. Listen for more....

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    • Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror
    • By: J.D. Hayworth, Joseph J. Eule
    • Narrated by: J.D. Hayworth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....

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    • How Workplace Savings Can Keep America's Promise
    • By: Robert L. Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
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    • At a time of fierce political divisiveness, From Here to Security is a refreshingly balanced, non-ideological guide to solving what may be our nation's most pressing policy challenge: achieving retirement security for all....

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    • By: Samuel G. Blythe
    • Narrated by: JIm Killavey
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-11
    • Language: English
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    • Using the same common sense approach that worked so well in his enormously successful book The Art of Getting Thin, Samuel G. Blythe focused this time on how he gave up alcohol....

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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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    • 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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    • A Mission to Restore Absent Fathers
    • By: Charles Marvin
    • Narrated by: Drew Hobson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Most child advocates agree that fatherlessness goes beyond the boundaries of race and socio-economic status - and is the root of almost every social ill faced by children in our society....

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    • Transformative Learning: Moving Information from Head to Heart
    • By: Dr. Candy Khan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • No employer wants its employees to be bullied and harassed at the workplace. On the contrary, most employers offer an anti-harassment training to ...

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