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 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 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. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string ...

Cassandra Butler, 43, starts her day at five in the morning, the only time when it’s quiet at her house in Puyallup, Washington. As she sips her first cup of coffee, she prepares for a long day ahead.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. On a late afternoon in early November, Xochitl Bervera launches The Roxie Girl from St. George Island into the gentle waters of ...