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 The Guardian. A tenfold increase in the number of immigration ...

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

For 24 years, Constance Franklin worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. As a CDC analyst, she traveled to Botswana during President George W. Bush’s administration ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Everything Is Political, and Slow Factory. For generations, the American West has served as one of the nation’s most enduring metaphors, a ...

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 The Guardian. In St Paul, Minnesota, Brittany Kubricky pulled into a school parking lot. Normally, she was there just to pick up her ...

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 ...