WOOD STREET follows residents of Oakland’s largest homeless encampment as they organize against eviction, centering unhoused ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New York Review of Books. Up against the delirious scale of Operation Metro Surge, ordinary people juggle daily life with looking out for ...

This article was co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s ...

Dundon’s evocative photo essay, originally for EHRP/American Prospect/Puffin Foundation, captures a brave Los Angeles organizing against the constant threat of ICE in July 2025.

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, ...

Every Friday at around 6 p.m., farmers in Greensboro, Vermont, descend on Tom Hill’s barn to help out with the Friday evening milking session. As udders are emptied and beers popped open, they catch ...

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 Teen Vogue. Early on a Thursday morning in Jacksonville, Florida, Ryan Moran and his wife are chatting over breakfast. The couple talk finances, ...

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 ...