Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, examines the lives of middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children. Through gripping storytelling & elegant prose, Quart shows how our country has failed families. Her subjects, including professors, lawyers, caregivers & nurses, have been wrung out by a system that doesn’t support them, & 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 also provides real solutions, outlining necessary policy shifts, as well as detailing the DIY tactics some families have embraced. And she offers a blueprint for helping us to see parenting & caregiving as truly valuable, not only emotionally but professionally & politically.
SQUEEZED is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, & 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 & those of their neighbors.
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