Exec Director of @econhardship. Author of books like Bootstrapped, Squeezed and Branded. Forget the Horatio Alger Story. Instead try mutual aid.
Joined September 2009
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27 Dec 2024
Thanks @nytimes and @FrankBruni for liking one of my sentences enough to put it on the Sentences of 2024 list. Writers really care about this category :) I think #barbaraehrenreich would approve as she liked to find satirical threads in misery
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The Economic Hardship Reporting Project @econhardship is a nonpartisan, nonprofit org producing compelling journalism on economic inequality in America. See their pitch portal: economichardship.org/pitch-p…
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"Pearly
everlasting waits to be
dried, troubling the line
between plant and bloom, vased,
its blossoms splaying palely,
metonyms for other loss."
From "Pearly Everlasting" by Alissa Quart, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/aliss…
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Jan 6
I wrote for @economichardship and @lithub
about the meaning of @ZohranKMamdani .bsky.social
and Wilson elections. The precarious middle class: not mere neurotics on their daybeds @INETeconomics
@maiasz @DavidKlion link in comments
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1 Dec 2025
Really excited to see this fantastic essay by Alissa Quart. I’m quoted in it, and so is my daughter’s insightful care provider, Julie Croghan. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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2 Dec 2025
"The Triple-Decker Sandwich #Caregiver": Excellent article in The Guardian about the many pressures on today's #caregivers by journalist Alissa Quart. Well worth reading for its integration of the personal and political
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1 Dec 2025
My latest on caregiving and the absence of compassion in the Trump 2.0 era
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22 Sep 2025
Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to
@PantheonBooks & editor @DeniseOswald about our state of constant & toxic uncertainty. Thanks
@JillGrinbergLit @econhardship Read about it in: @PublishersWkly I ❤️ nonfiction
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18 Sep 2025
1. Call me "Cassandra" but I repeat: it's the ADMINISTRATIVE CLASS that's handing society to fascists: University Administration, Corporate Executives, Politicians, Law Partners, Supreme Court Justices- people w/ their hands on the wheel, anyone who can fly flags at half-mast.
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30 Aug 2025
Alissa Quart has now found a new way for her 90-year-old mother's joy to bloom in other homes. @OvermyerTV reports. cbsloc.al/4g8Xrre
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Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.
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31 Aug 2025
My latest essay for @TimeMagazineRS on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. Very personal finance! time.com/7313480/labor-day-s… @OvermyerTV @econhardship @howserob @hamiltonnolan
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21 Aug 2025
it's nearly impossible for someone who makes six figures and up to understand how anyone gets by on half that or less. but that lower class includes most of the country! meanwhile virtually all journalism &culture comes from a sheltered pov that only sometimes gestures at empathy
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14 Aug 2025
"The economic and cultural shocks keep on coming. Yet amid these dismal shifts, there is a bright spot—a new interest in what I call precariat power." bit.ly/3V1vNT6 @lisquart
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The Democratic Party is losing today because it didn't face the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession, which wiped out a lot of people's wealth. That was a big messaging mistake: not acknowledging the enduring pain and loss during that time and after economichardship.org/2025/07…
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23 Jul 2025
In @nytopinion
Looking anew at her 90-year-old mother’s paintings, Alissa Quart writes, “I found out things about her that I had never bothered to think about — children, of course, don’t tend to dwell on their parents’ ambitions or reveries.” nyti.ms/3GY91YU
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24 Jul 2025
My new piece on what I call "citizen insecurity" in @guardian Read about why and how many of us don't feel identified with America anymore @econhardship @maiasz @Longreads @JillGrinbergLit
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23 Jul 2025
For any of you still on here, this is my piece about my mother, her art, affordability and mortality in @nytimes @nytopinion @hyperallergic (Thought of you too @MollyJongFast) @econhardship
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22 Jul 2025
My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opini… by @lisquart
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