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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.

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 …

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 …

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’ …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On November 4, Kate Archer Kent, host of Wisconsin Public Radio's Morning Show, and Shannon Henry Kleiber discussed our new three-part series “Going for Broke,” a co-production of the Economic …

On October 31, Alissa Quart joined The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an author and her role at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Listen to the …

More nonprofit newsrooms emerge as efforts increase to amplify marginalized and underrepresented journalist voices. The Institute for Nonprofit News reported that since 2017, more than 135 nonprofit news outlets have …

On October 25, EHRP executive director Alissa Quart joined The Journalism Salute to talk about EHRP, her career, and why reporting on inequity is so important. Listen to the full episode …

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