Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
b"Alissa Quart\\xa0is the executive editor of the journalism non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She co-founded its current incarnation with Barbara Ehrenreich. She is also the author of four previous acclaimed books,\\xa0Branded,\\xa0Republic of Outsiders,\\xa0Hothouse Kids\\xa0and the poetry book\\xa0Monetized. She writes the Outclassed column for\\xa0The Guardian\\xa0and has published features and reported commentary in many magazines and newspapers, most recently for\\xa0The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nationand\\xa0The New York Review of Books. She has won the Columbia Journalism School\\u2019s 2018 Alumni Award and 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.\\xa0Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America\\xa0(Ecco)\\xa0is her most recent book. Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children. Through gripping firsthand storytelling, Quart shows how our country has failed its families. Her subjects\\u2014from professors to lawyers to caregivers to nurses\\u2014have been wrung out by a system that doesn\\u2019t support them, and enriches only a tiny elite.\\xa0Squeezed\\xa0is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful,\\xa0it\\xa0casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive in an economy that holds too few options.\\n\\nAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands\\n\\nPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy"