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" Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harshemployment 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 solutio
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- Author
- Quart, Alissa (author.)
- Publisher
- Ecco, An Imprint Of Harpercollins Publishers,
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062847904
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social Science, Political Science
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (247 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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