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 858 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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    • HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3

    • I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
    • By: John Sutton
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Drugs. Riots. Shanks. Dirty Protests. Violent Freemason guards. Self-mutilation and suicides. Welcome to the brutal truth about life as a prison officer.

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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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    • 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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    • Economic Gangsters

    • Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
    • By: Raymond Fisman, Edmund Miguel
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity.....

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    • Poverty

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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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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    • The Shame Game

    • Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
    • By: Mary O'Hara
    • Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality....

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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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    • Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

    • Life Among the Stowaways
    • By: Sean Christie
    • Narrated by: Anton Engelen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's foreshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys....

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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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    • Vagabonds

    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • By: Oskar Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

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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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    • How the Other Half Lives

    • Studies Among the Tenements of New York
    • By: Jacob A. Riis
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure....

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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
    • Release date: 17-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • The Mole People

    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • By: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

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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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    • 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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