MSNBC Interviews EHRP’s Alissa Quart
EHRP executive director Alissa Quart discusses themes from her new book 'Bootstrapped,' which looks at how the American notion of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps creates harm.
Nonprofit Quarterly Interviews EHRP’s Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart, director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP), recently authored a book called Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream. Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart …
Alissa Quart’s New Book “Bootstrapped” Reviewed in The Atlantic
The Horatio Alger Association is one of the institutions that Alissa Quart, a journalist and the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, critiques in her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating …
Alissa Quart Nominated for Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism
Our executive director Alissa Quart has been nominated for the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism for two columns she wrote for EHRP and the Columbia Journalism Review: "Against ‘poor’ …
Alissa Quart Interviewed on American Enterprise Institute Podcast with Brent Orrell
On February 16, EHRP executive director Alissa Quart joined Hardly Working with Brent Orrell, an American Enterprise Institute podcast, to discuss the challenges facing the middle class, the future of automation …
Working Sources
Working Sources is an online database of nontraditional experts on economic precarity who are available to the press. Their authority derives from either lived experience or professional expertise or …
EHRP and CUNY Journalism Join Forces to Create Fellowship
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit that supports independent journalists telling stories about systems that perpetuate economic inequity, announces that Max Maldonado is the winner of the inaugural Economic Hardship Reporting …
EHRP and Fast Company Nominated for Ambies
Ambition Diaries, a multimedia mini series produced by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Fast Company, was nominated for an Ambie in the best business podcast category, the Podcast Academy …
Profit at What Cost? An Interview with Ray Suarez, host of Going for Broke
SD: What led you to create the Going for Broke podcast? I was in conversation with the managers of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP). I’m on their advisory board. And when I joined the …
Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love?
Co-published with PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. In this final part of our series, we’re talking about the right to meaningful work and what happens …
Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds
Co-published with PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty.
Going for Broke: Change of Address
Co-published with PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," we're thinking about housing. Many of us would …