Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America - Hardcover

Quart, Alissa

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ISBN 10: 0062412256 ISBN 13: 9780062412256

Verlag: ECCO PR, 2018

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SQUEEZED Why our families canŽt afford America editado por Harper & row usa

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"A vivid prose stylist, Quart makes powerfully real what happens when those who were once middle class can now only window shop for the American Dream. She also offers crucial collective plans to get us out of our anguishing binds."--Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

"Alissa Quart is a modern James Agee. Squeezed gets deep inside the increasingly perilous financial lives of American families showing that they are collateral damage of our disappearing government. A damning, necessary and intensely vital book."--Helaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

"Quart deftly chronicles the plight of Americans confronting the dangerous rise of Middle Class financial instability. Squeezed is journalism at its best: exploratory, visceral, and searching for answers. An important work to which attention should--and must--be paid."--David Corn, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

"Brilliant--a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class's fall while also offering solutions and hope."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

"Profound, a sweeping, blistering portrait of hard-working people from all walks of life. It's a rousing wakeup call that also points the way forward to a more equitable, expansive future."--Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

"What Alissa Quart does so beautifully is weave together textured, compelling portraits of individual families with big ideas. Read this important book to understand the challenges your own family faces in parenting, housing, planning for the future--and read it to find out what to do about them!"--Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex and Don't Call Me Princess

"Quart's investigation, written with the elegance of a literary novel, forces us to examine the grave consequences of an economic structure that has crushed the very people it claims are at the heart of the American dream."--Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars

"Vital to understanding American life today."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Squeezed, like Nickel and Dimed . . . is worth reading if you're invested in better understanding poverty in America."--BITCH, "15 Books Feminists Should Read in June"

"[Quart's] ambitious, top-tier reportage tells a powerful story of America today."--Publishers Weekly

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One of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer

“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.” 
   — Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare 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 managed has become impossible.

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—from professors to lawyers to caregivers to nurses—have been wrung out by a system that doesn’t support them, and enriches only a tiny elite.

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.

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.

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• Verlag: ECCO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0062412256
• ISBN 13: 9780062412256
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320