Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Dirt Media, and Lux Magazine. We were selling baby food and the ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Staff with lived experience can ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. As this year’s Labor Day approaches, I remember my late grandmother. She worked her whole life in her and my grandfather’s small shoe ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and WHYY, the Commonwealth Fund, The Carter Center, and the Mesa Refuge. “I closed the door! I closed the door!” Amy Franco shouted repeatedly from ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Nonprofit Quarterly. An organizing conversation often features an “ask,” a question encouraging a fellow worker to commit to some form 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 Barn Raiser. When I was 17, my dad filled a box truck with all of our family’s belongings—including most of the house’s furniture—and drove away ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Barn Raiser. Rural families like mine are still grappling with the long-term mental health consequences of housing loss.

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 Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. In the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, the goddess Ho‘ohōkūkalani gives birth to a stillborn son, who is buried in the ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Prism. “If it doesn’t work out, I’m going back,” said the Venezuelan woman through an interpreter. Since escaping her country along with 7.7 ...

From the dangerously breakneck pace of fast food restaurants to self-storage units as symbols of loss in a housing crisis, read our collection of recent first-person stories examining working class ...