Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. The myth of the “irrational poor” is often used ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Migrant labor fuels much of Vermont’s dairy ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. A tenfold increase in the number of immigration ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and MLK50. An illustrated explainer of the toll xAI and other toxic ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Slate. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A few years ago, Sunnie Helling decided to get serious about sobriety. She moved into the Union Gospel Mission, a ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Slate. In a sleepy Washington state beach town roughly five miles from the U.S.–Canada border, you’ll find Birch Bay Storage. Last December, my ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. TO EXPRESS THE AMBIENT FEELING that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Inside the factory-like environment of a fast-food kitchen, sodas should be the easiest menu item to serve. At my restaurant, a pair of ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh. These days, the ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string ...