Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Everything Is Political. Battling for the highway’s future.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the Hechinger Report and the Nation. This story about children and lead poisoning was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. Worker protections have been rolled back at the ...

HOLLYWOOD IS A BUSINESS ruled by uncertainty. Film and television work is overwhelmingly freelance, governed by informal networks and opaque hiring decisions. People audition, pitch, take meetings, ...

I am the subject of my own thesis research. This realization dawned on me last year, in the gap between defending my PhD thesis on the economics of education under inequality and intersectional ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. This is Part Two of a two-part series; read Part One here. Last spring, José Edilberto Molina-Aguilar was resting in his ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. This is Part One of a two-part series; read Part Two here. Hilario’s work shift on a Vermont dairy farm began at 10.30pm when ...

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 moment you decide to work at a liquor store, you become a gatekeeper in America’s complicated relationship with alcohol ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Cut. Kelly always loved kids. Growing up in a rural part of Texas in a conservative, Christian environment, she worked as the camp ...

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 ...