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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can ?pull yourself up by your bootstraps? is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However, time and again we have seen how this foundational myt...

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A collection of compelling, hard-hitting essays, documentary poems, and photographs that together expose our punitive social systems from the ground up.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, EHRP’s Managing Director, gives voice to a range of gifted writers who know what it means to live on the edge. These are journalists for whom “economic precarity” is more th...

A collection of immersive and hard-hitting essays, poems, and photography that provide an honest reckoning with economic hardship in the US—and the systems that perpetuate it.In the tradition of the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s, Going for Broke, edited by Economic Hardship Reporting Project directors Alissa Quart and David Wallis, assembles the experiences of Americans who are living on the edge. A grocery store worker describes the j...

“You walk into Thoughts and Prayers like it’s a familiar pop cultural fun house—then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you’re actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening, full of anguished intelligence and bitter fun.” —Mary GaitskillThoughts and Prayers is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experie...

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed an American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less equal, less healthy, less productive, and less fulfilled The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American dream. It's the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will ultimately succeed. However, time and again we have seen the way t...

Families today are squeezed on every side—from nearly unaffordable housing, education, and childcare costs to stagnant wages and the rise of the gig economy. For this generation, attaining the standard of living their parents managed has become nearly impossible.  Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful, Squeezed casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive. It will make readers think differently about t...

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The middle-class American Dream is imploding. Squeezed shows how the high cost of parenthood and our unstable job market got us here and offers surprising solutions for improving our condition.Families today are squeezed on every side—from high child care costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours. Many realize that attaining the standard of living their parents mana...

Looks at the intensely competitive and frenzied lives of America's children. This work asks the questions that parents find themselves asking. Where should parents and teachers draw the line? And can the hothousing of children lead to irreparable problems later in life? It also examines the over hyped world of baby edutainment.

An incisive expose of the underhanded advertising initiatives that target teens-and an exploration of their disturbing consequences

Vivid portraits" of individuals and subcultures by a writer who "unmasks the assumptions we make about what counts as normal" (The New York Times).   They are outsiders who seek to redefine fields from mental health to diplomacy to music. They push boundaries and transform ideas. They include filmmakers crowdsourcing their work, transgender and autistic activists, and Occupy Wall Street's "alternative bankers." These people create and package ...

This "groundbreaking study of the increasing influence of cultural outsiders” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) is "at once an ode to the underrepresented and a reporting tour de force” (The Writer). Alissa Quart, "one of the smartest cultural interpreters of her generation” (Susan Cain, author of Quiet), introduces us to those who have created new ways to keep themselves sane, fulfilled, and, on occasion, paid. Republic of Outsiders is the story...

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