Alissa Quart

TV, Radio, and Speaking

Apr. 2023 | Here and Now, “Bootstrapped” NPR, WBUR

Apr. 2023 | "Episode 5: Three Ways to Eradicate Child Poverty and Its Residual Effects with Kercena Dozier, Alissa Quart, and Dr. Rita Hamad," The Invisible Americans Podcast

Apr. 2023 | "Is the American Dream a Long Con?," The Nation

Apr. 2023 | "Is the American DreamAuthor on new book, 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' a Long Con?," KPCW’s Mountain Money

Apr. 2023 | "'Bootstrapped': The self-made myth and the 'dystopian social safety net' it created," Marketplace

Apr. 2023 | "The Mehdi Hasan Show - April 2nd, 2023," MSNBC’s The Mehdi Hasan Show

Apr. 2023 | "'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps': How a joke about bootstraps devolved into an American credo," Salon

Mar. 2023 | "Dana Milbank, Brian Beutler & Alissa Quart," Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Mar. 2023 | "'Bootstrapped': Alissa Quart on Liberating Ourselves from the Myth of the American Dream," Democracy Now!

Mar. 2023 | "'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' by Alissa Quart," WAMC Northeast Public Radio's The Roundtable

Mar. 2023 | "American self-reliance can steer us wrong. Can the 'art of dependence' take its place?," Wisconsin Public Radio

Mar. 2023 | "Alissa Quart," Team Human

Mar. 2023 | "How the myth of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps causes harm," MSNBC’s Morning Joe

Mar. 2023 | "America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart," Nonprofit Quarterly

Mar. 2023 | "Revisiting the American Dream," The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Mar. 2023 | "Author and advocate Alissa Quart on the power of underrepresented voices," Crain’s New York Business

Sep. 2022 | "Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered: How She Covered Poverty & Started Economic Hardship Reporting Project," Democracy Now!

Sep. 2022 | "Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich," NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and WAMU

Sep. 2022 | "Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson," BBC’s Last Word

Feb. 2022 | "Rich Language w/ Alissa Quart," PBS’s Attribution, a podcast from The Moving Up Media Lab

Feb. 2022 | "The American dream of the middle class isn’t what it used to be," CNBC

Oct. 2021 | "Ray Suarez and Alissa Quart on Economic Hardship in the U.S.," C-SPAN

Oct. 2021 | "A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story," The Nation

Sep. 2021 | "The end of the middle class: Why prosperity is failing in America," Big Think

May 2021 | "Alissa Quart: Avoid making 4 side hustle mistakes," CNBC Make It

Mar. 2020 | "What The Coronavirus Crisis Means For Those Already Struggling," WBUR

Nov. 2019 | "Bernice Yeung with Alissa Quart," with Bernice Yeung at Bernie Wohl Center

Nov. 2019 | "'Thoughts And Prayers' Author On How To Recover The Meaning Of Words We Use Again And Again," NPR's Here and Now

Jan. 2019 | "Stephanie Land: Maid w/ Alissa Quart" with Stephanie Land at Books Are Magic

Nov. 2018 | "Study: Most U.S. salaries don’t support middle-class lifestyles," MSNBC

Nov. 2018 | "Open Phones with Alissa Quart," C-SPAN

Oct. 2018 | "Alissa Quart, Author 'Squeezed'," ThirtyFour-50 Radio Show

Oct. 2018 | "Interview with Alissa Quart," The Zachary Karabell Podcast

Jul. 2018 | "Alissa Quart, author of 'Squeezed'," The Bruce St. James & Pamela Hughes Show

Jul. 2018 | "'Squeezed' Explores Why America Is Getting Too Expensive For The Middle Class," KCUR

Jun. 2018 | "'Why Our Families Can't Afford America' / Singer Frank Newsome," NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross

Jun. 2018 | "Why can’t I make ends meet? Why can’t I make this math work?," Marketplace

Jun. 2018 | "Journalist Alissa Quart On Income Inequality, The Shrinking Middle Class, And Her Book “Squeezed”," GBH News

Dec. 2017 | "The Sexual Harassment Stakes for Low-Income Women," Bloomberg Markets

Nov. 2017 | "The Sexual Harassment Conversation is Class-Skewed," WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show

Oct. 2017 | "American Hardship," PBS

Apr. 2015 | "WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation With Alissa Quart," In Conversation with Alan Chartock

Mar. 2015 | "Using Poetry To Expose The Power Of Money, Class And Gender," NPR's Here and Now

Nov. 2014 | "Not daycare, but anytime care" with Krystal Ball, MSNBC 

Feb. 2014 | "Generation Like," PBS FRONTLINE

Sept. 2013 | "Outsiders: Challenging Society's Idea of Normal," PRI's The Takeaway

Sept. 2013 | "Alissa Quart & Susan Cain discuss Republic of Outsiders" with Susan Cain at The Strand, Bookforum 

Aug. 2013 | "Disrupt The Status Quo: Alissa Quart On The Perks Of Being an Outsider," The Lavin Blog

Jun. 2013 | "From Gen X to Z: Teens and the New Cool," Frontline

Sep. 2012 | "The Parents Journal-September 17, 2012-Alissa Quart," The Parents Journal with Bobbi Conner

Aug. 2006 | "Gifted and Pressured?," The Leonard Lopate Show on New York Public Radio

Aug. 2006 | "Alissa Quart: “Hothouse Kids” (Penguin Press)," The Diane Rehm Show on American University Radio

Feb. 2003 | "Alissa Quart: "Branded" (Perseus)," The Diane Rehm Show on American University Radio

Mar. 2003 | "Consuming Passions: Shopping and Brand Names," C-SPAN

Feb. 2003 | "Book Discussion on Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers," C-SPAN

Feb. 2003 | "Teens for Sale," The Tavis Smiley Show on National Public Radio