Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Hammer and Hope. Over a year later, they are struggling to find ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Everything Is Political, and Slow Factory. How America’s last ...

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, 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 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 ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. On a late-September evening in the small coastal town of Homer, Alaska, a reporter named Chloe Pleznac prepared ...

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 ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. At the Crown Heights, Brooklyn bar Whoopsie Daisy, on a sunny fall afternoon, patrons drank natural wines while their children ran ...

This story is published in partnership with The Guardian and Bridge Detroit. Miraculously, Tomeka Langford is willing to talk to me. The 47-year-old Black woman is a long-standing Detroiter. A career ...

This story was written by Camille A. Padilla Dalmau and María E. Ocasio Torres and produced in collaboration with 9 Millones, a digital media outlet based in Puerto Rico. With her six-month-old son ...