Poverty & Homelessness

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  • Poor cover art

    • Poor

    • By: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings

    • As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....

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    • London Labour and the London Poor

    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • 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 Social Distance Between Us

    • How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings

    • From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most....

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    • 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: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 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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  • I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth cover art

    • I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth

    • By: Paul London
    • Narrated by: Paul London
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 17-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • When it comes to Skinheads, I see a lot of people these days re-writing history, whitewashing the youth cult or bending the truth to suit their political narrative.

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  • The Business Solution to Poverty cover art

    • The Business Solution to Poverty

    • Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
    • By: Paul Polak, Mal Warwick
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The nearly three billion people living on two dollars a day are not just the world’s greatest challenge - they represent an extraordinary market opportunity....

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    • Damnation Island

    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • The War on Disabled People

    • Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe
    • By: Ellen Clifford
    • Narrated by: Nadia Albina
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for ‘grave and systematic violations’ of disabled people’s rights....

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    • Why You Won't Get Rich

    • How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
    • By: Robert Verkaik
    • Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality....

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    • Teeth

    • The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    • By: Mary Otto
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

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    • 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: 06-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Club on the Edge of Town

    • A Pandemic Memoir
    • By: Alan Lane
    • Narrated by: Alan Lane
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • When crisis hits and audiences stay home, what’s the most useful thing a theater company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop help shop for those in need. In 15 months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels....

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    • A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams

    • By: Jeff Pearce
    • Narrated by: Robin Morrissey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams is the heartwarming true story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything and proof that, sometimes, rags can be turned into riches....

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    • $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: 01-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Creating a World Without Poverty

    • How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
    • By: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty....

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    • The Inclusive Economy

    • How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
    • By: Michael D. Tanner
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives, Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, looks at the reasons for poverty in America and offers a detailed agenda for increasing wealth, incomes, and opportunity....

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    • Out of Poverty

    • What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
    • By: Paul Polak
    • Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong....

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  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty 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: 09-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • Toxic Communities

    • Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
    • By: Dorceta E. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards....

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