Alissa Quart
@lisquart
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Exec Director of @econhardship. Author of books like Bootstrapped, Squeezed and Branded. Forget the Horatio Alger Story. Instead try mutual aid.
Joined September 2009
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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RT @CBSNewYork: Alissa Quart has now found a new way for her 90-year-old mother's joy to bloom in other homes. @OvermyerTV reports. https:/….
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Barbara Quart, 90, has painted nearly every day since she retired from teaching literature 30 years ago.
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RT @TIME: Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.
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Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.
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My latest essay for @TimeMagazineRS on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. Very personal finance! @OvermyerTV @econhardship @howserob @hamiltonnolan.
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Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.
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RT @astradisastra: In addition to this great ad this guy just told @EmmaVigeland that "the core of my politics is Jane McAlevey” and that’s….
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RT @howserob: @PhdMarilyn @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo @RichAzzopardi @lisquart 1 PhD is simply an obstacle to understanding real world pol….
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RT @npquarterly: "The economic and cultural shocks keep on coming. Yet amid these dismal shifts, there is a bright spot—a new interest in w….
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If there is any bright spot in the Trump administration’s dog days, it’s that nonprofits are reigniting their struggle for economic justice.
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RT @jessdrkn: The Democratic Party is losing today because it didn't face the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession, which wiped out a lot….
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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Barn Raiser. Rural families like mine are still grappling with the long-term mental health consequences of housing loss.
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RT @nytimes: In @nytopinion. Looking anew at her 90-year-old mother’s paintings, Alissa Quart writes, “I found out things about her that I….
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What I learned about myself trying to find homes for my mother’s amateur oil paintings.
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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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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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RT @SBWorkersUnited: Amber & her fellow NYC baristas are walking out alongside workers across the country!. Starbucks should focus on the p….
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I wrote for @lithub and @econhardship about the bizarre kitsch of Trump and Vance going about dolls. Social class kitsch and it has taken a real issue-- kid consumerism-- and turned it into sexist gibberish. #branded
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Take a look at this poem page in Current Affairs @NathanJRobinson @celinasu @econhardship @Toscano200 @RealisticPoetry
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Journalism and Sovereignty compete and the latter wins. thank goodness no one named their horse Oligarchy. #kentuckyderby #journalism.
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