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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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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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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"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. 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. 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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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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"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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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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My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opini… by @lisquart
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“Clio, muse of history” by Artemisia Gentileschi @katherineveritt @lisquart
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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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By the way, we just dropped the new edition of the Current Affairs Poet's Alley page, ft. @_dariussimpson, @lisquart from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, @celinasu, and W.D. Ehrhart - some of the most exciting poets working today.
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Print issue 53 will be out soon!
💸👶How to raise Billionaire Infants
✍️Poetry by @lisquart and more!
🪄The Political Abuses of Tolkien
🏠 Louisiana's Abita Mystery Fun House
🐽 Why it's Still "Defund and Abolish"
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