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Alissa Quart

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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
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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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Hey if you want some community consider attending this mind blowing yearly event @BPL_Presents Night of Ideas on March 8th... with @hamiltonnolan @econhardship @mollycrabapple we can all feel the rage and quest for sublimity together
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RT @BigMeanInternet: Great structure, excited to get into this one
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RT @AmirKhafagy91: Exclusive 🚨 Homeless, Jobless and Afraid: Day Laborers Struggle to Survive in the Trump Era Immigrant day laborers in…
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RT @Greg_Gerke: Rohmer’s best line:
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RT @maxwelltani: Staff at Politico did not get paid for the latest pay period. The company just sent several emails to employees saying it…
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RT @angie_rasmussen: On Data Purge Eve, many people stayed up late to save the CDC website. @charles_gaba downloaded the whole thing. 👑 A…
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RT @TIME: "The ground beneath our feet is perpetually shifting. And it’s hard to keep our balance," writes Alissa Quart
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RT @NathanJRobinson: this is practically the party slogan by now
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RT @Luc_pete: This is a phenomenal piece all around, but I want highlight this particular absurdity.
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RT @hamiltonnolan: We are about to live through the worst time the labor movement has seen in a century and there's no use deluding ourselv…
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@okapifilm @NekoCase @NewsHour Omg I can't wait to listen. Tom and Kathleen, we need to get together and listen to @NekoCase !
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RT @kenklippenstein: “Solidarity forever” — Brooklyn media person who would wear your skin like a wetsuit for a New Yorker staff position
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RT @KathaPollitt: Incredible breaking news from a journalist friend who called Fettterman's office: Fetterman hasn't decided whether or not…
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Check it out @astradisastra you are in this! @maiasz @JillGrinbergLit
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RT @econhardship: Our director's latest in @TIME: "This is our new normal—uncertainty all the time. I call it 'terra infirma,' an inversio…
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Insecurity is the New Inequality: Excellent piece in TIME by Alissa Quart, head of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Very relevant to the moment! kat@thenation.com
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RT @GrimKim: Workers at a Philly @WholeFoods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅 Phil…
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RT @MorePerfectUS: Trump's illegal freeze on billions of dollars allocated by law could: -Hurt people in federally subsidized housing -Blo…
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