@lisquart

Exec Director of @econhardship. Author of books like Bootstrapped, Squeezed and Branded. Forget the Horatio Alger Story. Instead try mutual aid.

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Joined September 2009
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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… @lisquart
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The Yale Review@yalereviewJan 7
"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…

Alissa Quart: “Pearly Everlasting”

A poem by Alissa Quart: “‘Don’t pick the apples’ reads / the sign, tempting like this / island’s algaeic beaches”

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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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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…

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well

You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. I experienced this first-hand

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"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 theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well

You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. I experienced this first-hand

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My latest on caregiving and the absence of compassion in the Trump 2.0 era theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well

You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. I experienced this first-hand

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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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@CBSNewYork30 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

Manhattan woman helps mother's art find new life after cancer diagnosis

Barbara Quart, 90, has painted nearly every day since she retired from teaching literature 30 years ago.

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TIME
@TIME30 Aug 2025
Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America. time.com/7313480/labor-day-s…

What Labor Day Sales Say About the American Dream

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! time.com/7313480/labor-day-s… @OvermyerTV @econhardship @howserob @hamiltonnolan

What Labor Day Sales Say About the American Dream

Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.

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joanne mcneil@jomc21 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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Rob Howse
@howserob17 Aug 2025
Replying to @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." bit.ly/3V1vNT6 @lisquart

Class Not Dismissed: Mamdani, Nonprofits, and the Fight for Economic Justice | Nonprofit Quarterly...

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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Rob Howse
@howserob26 Jul 2025
Replying to @WSJ
Yes! The Democratic Party can be the vanguard of the precariat (as articluated by @lisquart) even if @WSJ thinks that a bad thing; it's time that the Party identified itself w those who find themselves worse off, rather than-Obama style-tech billionaires & media celebrities.
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jessdrkn@jessdrkn28 Jul 2025
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…

Will Cuts in Rural Programs Leave the Same Lasting Wounds as the 2008 Financial Crisis? - Economic...

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.” nyti.ms/3GY91YU

Opinion | My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 (Published 2025)

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 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opini… by @lisquart

Opinion | My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 (Gift Article)

What I learned about myself trying to find homes for my mother’s amateur oil paintings.

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