EHRP’s Alissa Quart Quoted in MarketWatch About Income Insecurity
EHRP executive director Alissa Quart was quoted in the MarketWatch article, “You’re not upper class in America until you’ve reached this coveted status,” published on October 1, 2024. The article reads, in part:
“There is an important distinction between someone who barely earns enough to pay their bills and someone who must tap into their index funds when they are down, Alissa Quart, the author of ‘Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream,’ told MarketWatch. Yet many households trying to enjoy what they perceive to be middle-class pleasures — like occasional meals out or summer camp for their kids — are living paycheck to paycheck in order to do so, she added.
‘You can be insecure at a lot of different levels on the [income] gradient,’ Quart said.”
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