Alissa Quart Quotes
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Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.
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Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'
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The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.
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Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high.
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If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.
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No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.
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There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.
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The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
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Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.
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Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.
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Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.