Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Alondra Sotelo Garcia saw the same headlines as everybody else. Masked immigration agents making increasingly bold arrests.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. The myth of the “irrational poor” is often used to justify cutting and restricting public programs. But people on SNAP and ...

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 Slate. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a ...

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 the Economic Hardship Reporting Project’s James Ledbetter Fund and Oxford American. On the first Saturday of each December, a small miracle occurs in the extreme northeastern Oklahoma ...

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 ...

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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Christian Century. The 5 p.m. mass on a recent sunday found Isela Castro selling beef nachos at Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Jesuit parish in San ...

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, The Margin, and The Nation. Stephanie Alexie awoke one morning to find her home surrounded by water too deep to wade through. “It looked like 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 ...