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SQUEEZED
Why Our Families Can't Afford America
Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things.
Interlacing her own experience with close-up reporting on families that are just getting by, Quart reveals parenthood itself to be financially overwhelming, except for the wealthiest. She offers real solutions to these problems, including outlining necessary policy shifts, as well as detailing the DIY tactics some families are already putting into motion, and argues for the cultural reevaluation of parenthood and caregiving.
While Quart's reporting is U.S. focused, the issues she uncovers - the human struggles, the desire for stability and family - are not. The roots of these issues stretch across borders, and Quart cites countries that struggle alongside the U.S., and those who are a modeling a better way forward.
Written in the spirit of Barbara Ehrenreich and Jennifer Senior, SQUEEZED is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful, it casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive in an economy that holds too few options. It will make readers think differently about their lives and those of their neighbors.
Alissa Quartis the executive editor of the journalism non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She co-founded its current incarnation with Barbara Ehrenreich. She writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian and has published features and reported commentary in many magazines and newspapers, most recently for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation and The New York Review of Books. In addition to the Columbia Journalism School's 2018 Alumni Award she has won the LA Press Club Award for Commentary, was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a National Magazine Award.
While Quart's reporting is U.S. focused, the issues she uncovers - the human struggles, the desire for stability and family - are not. The roots of these issues stretch across borders, and Quart cites countries that struggle alongside the U.S., and those who are a modeling a better way forward.
Written in the spirit of Barbara Ehrenreich and Jennifer Senior, SQUEEZED is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful, it casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive in an economy that holds too few options. It will make readers think differently about their lives and those of their neighbors.
Alissa Quartis the executive editor of the journalism non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She co-founded its current incarnation with Barbara Ehrenreich. She writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian and has published features and reported commentary in many magazines and newspapers, most recently for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation and The New York Review of Books. In addition to the Columbia Journalism School's 2018 Alumni Award she has won the LA Press Club Award for Commentary, was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a National Magazine Award.
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Published 2018-06-26 by Ecco |
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Published 2018-06-26 by Ecco |