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  • How the Other Half Learns cover art

    • How the Other Half Learns

    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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    • Waiting to Inhale

    • Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice
    • By: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Tahira Rehmatullah
    • Narrated by: Julienne Irons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah issue a powerful call for a racial reckoning and provide a roadmap to redress this deep and abiding injustice....

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    • Taming the Octopus

    • The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
    • By: Kyle Edward Williams
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.

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    • Colorblind

    • The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
    • By: Tim Wise
    • Narrated by: Tim Wise
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • Focusing on disparities in employment, housing, education and health care, Wise argues that racism is indeed still an acute problem in the United States today and that colorblind policies actually worsen the problem of racial injustice....

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    • Listen, We Need to Talk

    • How to Change Attitudes About LGBT Rights
    • By: Brian F. Harrison, Melissa R. Michelson
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • Through a series of engaging experiments and compelling evidence, Listen, We Need to Talk provides a blueprint for thinking about how to bring disparate groups together over contentious political issues....

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  • Charity Detox cover art

    • Charity Detox

    • What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
    • By: Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-20
    • Language: English
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    • The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....

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    • Not a Crime to Be Poor

    • The Criminalization of Poverty in America
    • By: Peter Edelman
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-17
    • Language: English
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    • As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today....

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    • Return

    • 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: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Your Money or Your Life

    • Debt Collection in American Medicine
    • By: Luke Messac
    • Narrated by: Luke Messac
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Your Money or Your Life reveals how medical debt collection became a multi-billion-dollar industry and how everyday Americans are made to pay the price....

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    • Taxing the Rich

    • A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
    • By: Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from 20 countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available....

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    • Helping the Good Do Better

    • How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change
    • By: Thomas F. Sheridan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • Helping the Good Do Better pulls back the curtain on the corridors of power in Washington to reveal how social change really happens....

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    • The Poverty Industry

    • The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
    • By: Daniel L. Hatcher
    • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....

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    • The Case for Basic Income

    • Freedom, Security, Justice
    • By: Jamie Swift, Elaine Power
    • Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-22
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19, an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income....

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    • On the Clock

    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • By: Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....

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    • The American Caste Story

    • Human Rights Essays & Poems
    • By: DaQuan Lawrence
    • Narrated by: ChuiMalik
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • The American Caste Story is an "underground railroad" map of America's apartheid system. Lawrence's debut work doubles as a "concept mixtape," and an autobiographical statement about social systems' impact on humans around the world....

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    • War

    • Voices of the Oppressed
    • By: John E. Cornish III
    • Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • In the corridors of history, amidst the tumultuous echoes of change, there emerge moments of profound insight that resonate across time and space....

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    • Know Your Price

    • Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
    • By: Andre M. Perry
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued....

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  • It’s Just a Matter of Balance cover art

    • It’s Just a Matter of Balance

    • You Can’t Put a Straight Leg on a Crooked Man
    • By: Kevin S. Garrison
    • Narrated by: Bryson Carr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-19
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • A heartwarming debut memoir about finding meaning in the face of loss. Garrison is a proficient writer with an inspiring story, but his self-awareness and insight into disability give weight to his memoir....

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    • Generation Gap

    • Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture
    • By: Kevin Munger
    • Narrated by: Justin Price
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-22
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history—and they aren't going away any time soon. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate....

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