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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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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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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Alissa Quart has now found a new way for her 90-year-old mother's joy to bloom in other homes. @OvermyerTV reports.
cbsnews.com
Barbara Quart, 90, has painted nearly every day since she retired from teaching literature 30 years ago.
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Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America. https://t.co/7b3UPjI2BY
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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! https://t.co/08B1D1Pdwp
@OvermyerTV @econhardship @howserob @hamiltonnolan
time.com
Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.
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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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@PhdMarilyn @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo @RichAzzopardi @lisquart 1 PhD is simply an obstacle to understanding real world politics. 2 PhDs may be fatal.
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"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." https://t.co/4m3KVx6KAc
@lisquart
nonprofitquarterly.org
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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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
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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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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.”
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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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My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 https://t.co/CURtkkgiIC by @lisquart
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What I learned about myself trying to find homes for my mother’s amateur oil paintings.
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Amber & her fellow NYC baristas are walking out alongside workers across the country! Starbucks should focus on the problems that matter - like understaffing, customer wait times, high prices, & low wages for baristas - instead of making us buy new clothes for a drab dress code.
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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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