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Alissa Quart

@alissaquart.bsky.social

ED of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Author of books including Squeezed, Bootstrapped and Branded. Likes verbs. Recovering utopian. Ready to fight.

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Roosevelt Institute@rooseveltinstitute.org · last mo.

After 17 years without an increase, the federal minimum wage has lost nearly a third of its purchasing power. It's long past time to restore a meaningful national wage floor. Our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and @epi.org’s @hshierholz.bsky.social explain how in @thehill.com:

Minimum wage has stagnated for 17 years — it’s time for a pay bump

Housing costs too much. Healthcare costs too much. Childcare costs too much. But for most workers, the most immediate problem is simpler: their paychecks are too low.

thehill.com

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

"The most trusted and esteemed program in American journalism, the legacy of our loved ones’ hard work and its accompanying sacrifices on the home front, has, in [Scott] Pelley’s words, been murdered," writes Sarah Safer, daughter of Morley Safer, who was a 60 Minutes correspondent for 46 years.

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS Is doing to CBS | Sarah Safer

My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out

theguardian.com

Alissa Quart@alissaquart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One Battle After Another wins the Oscars. Not a surprise. PTA compared it to Oscars 1975 but I explain why it's not this piece in @motherjones.com @economichardship.bsky.social No winner said anything political, sadly. @maiasz.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Class struggle, but weird: The surreal politics of this year's Oscar nominees

The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they're suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.

motherjones.com

Alissa Quart@alissaquart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

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. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand

theguardian.com

Randy Rosso@fooddatanerd.com · 8mo ago

🥗 This is the urgent reality that @alissaquart.bsky.social’s incredible books woke me up to, and it’s the reality we all must confront to progress as a nqtion, a people, a community. One where all of us can survive and thrive, and we leave NOBODY behind! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.

Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.

washingtonpost.com

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Right. Zohran explicitly links his economic populism w/his attack on Trump's authoritarian abuses, which also hurt working people. Some commentators are trying to only elevate the former, to push Dems away from taking on Trump frontally, but they're (deliberately?) missing the real innovation here:

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Mamdani “doesn’t allow that there’s a conflict between emphasizing economic populism and taking on Trump’s authoritarianism.” As @gregsargent.bsky.social suggests, there’s no reason to assume this synthesis wouldn’t work just as well in swing territory newrepublic.com/article/2011...