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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Essay: I see Tarot, much like New Year’s resolutions, as part of something I call "wish culture," writes Alissa Quart.
When reality felt broken, I turned to Tarot cards
Alissa Quart's mom was sick and her job kept her tethered to a nonstop news cycle. "The pain and desperation I felt when I asked for a reading is part of why I think Tarot cards, spells, energy work a...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Essay: I see Tarot, much like New Year’s resolutions, as part of something I call "wish culture," writes Alissa Quart.
I am a skeptic but I found surprising meaning in Tarot which I call part of wish culture for @wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social link in comments! @maiasz.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I am a skeptic but I found surprising meaning in Tarot which I call part of wish culture for @wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social link in comments! @maiasz.bsky.social
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Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
I wrote for @economichardship.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social about the meaning of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Wilson elections. The precarious middle class: not mere neurotics on their daybeds with @inetoxford.bsky.social @epi.org and others @maiasz.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I wrote for @economichardship.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social about the meaning of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Wilson elections. The precarious middle class: not mere neurotics on their daybeds with @inetoxford.bsky.social @epi.org and others @maiasz.bsky.social
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I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well - Alissa Quart
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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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December 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well - Alissa Quart
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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
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December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
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🥗 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!
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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.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🥗 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!
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I have not seen ANYONE mention that as a factor in the election. You have to be certified shit for brains if you don't think the labor market matters to people.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I have not seen ANYONE mention that as a factor in the election. You have to be certified shit for brains if you don't think the labor market matters to people.
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And the issue is not just getting a job. It's getting a decent job. The plunge in job switching means many fewer people feel they can leave a job they don't like.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
And the issue is not just getting a job. It's getting a decent job. The plunge in job switching means many fewer people feel they can leave a job they don't like.
I wrote about my late friend and brilliant poet Cole for @poetrysociety.org She was really one of a kind. Also about bygone literary scenes and nature as mutual aid @maiasz.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetshouse.bsky.social @pw.org
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Remembering Cole
Remembrances, appreciations, and remarks.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I wrote about my late friend and brilliant poet Cole for @poetrysociety.org She was really one of a kind. Also about bygone literary scenes and nature as mutual aid @maiasz.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetshouse.bsky.social @pw.org
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Great to be on WHYY for an hour (!) talking about the squeezed middle class in the Trump 2.0 era (federal worker lay offs, defunding of PBS, med research etcetera). Plus: jokes & Bourdieu... @whyy.org @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @deniseoswald.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Great to be on WHYY for an hour (!) talking about the squeezed middle class in the Trump 2.0 era (federal worker lay offs, defunding of PBS, med research etcetera). Plus: jokes & Bourdieu... @whyy.org @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @deniseoswald.bsky.social
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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:
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
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Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way
The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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:
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You can't really call yourself a reporter til you've gone on a 2-week school trip (called "Introduction to Travel Journalism") to Orlando that includes tickets to 7 theme parks, and "beverage coolers."
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September 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
You can't really call yourself a reporter til you've gone on a 2-week school trip (called "Introduction to Travel Journalism") to Orlando that includes tickets to 7 theme parks, and "beverage coolers."
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George Soros has done as much as anyone to strengthen democratic freedoms in the United States—democratic freedoms that are important to the right as well as the left. It’s those freedoms that are the real target of this outrageous attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
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September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
George Soros has done as much as anyone to strengthen democratic freedoms in the United States—democratic freedoms that are important to the right as well as the left. It’s those freedoms that are the real target of this outrageous attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Excited about next week’s nearly daylong @economichardship.bsky.social event at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social starring @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social , @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social Ray Suarez and others!
September 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited about next week’s nearly daylong @economichardship.bsky.social event at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social starring @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social , @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social Ray Suarez and others!
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It is the dystopian safety net, as @alissaquart.bsky.social has written. But necessary so often. Thank you Leran! 💕
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It is the dystopian safety net, as @alissaquart.bsky.social has written. But necessary so often. Thank you Leran! 💕
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I loathe that we need GoFundMe campaigns for this type of thing, but Randy is a real one. Kind, dedicated, smart, funny, and deeply a good person. If you have a few dollars or well wishes please send them his way
There’s a link at the end to a GoFundMe set up by my wonderful friend Lindsay Saunders:
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September 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I loathe that we need GoFundMe campaigns for this type of thing, but Randy is a real one. Kind, dedicated, smart, funny, and deeply a good person. If you have a few dollars or well wishes please send them his way
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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"Tasteless" does not even begin to describe what is happening here.
Fireworks for Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
September 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"Tasteless" does not even begin to describe what is happening here.
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🥗 Latest SNAP data (through 6-2025):
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September 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🥗 Latest SNAP data (through 6-2025):
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Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Oof we've got a lot of work to do to counter these persistent myths about poverty. Right @alissaquart.bsky.social?
September 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Oof we've got a lot of work to do to counter these persistent myths about poverty. Right @alissaquart.bsky.social?
It has been three years and one day since Barbara Ehrenreich left us. She meant a great deal to me personally and professionally, as a literary and political figure & weirdly, as a metaphysical guide. Here we are after a book event I did with BE in Vogue. @economichardship.bsky.social @ips-dc.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It has been three years and one day since Barbara Ehrenreich left us. She meant a great deal to me personally and professionally, as a literary and political figure & weirdly, as a metaphysical guide. Here we are after a book event I did with BE in Vogue. @economichardship.bsky.social @ips-dc.org