Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Stranger’s Guide.The grim reality of service work — and one ...

EHRP’S LATEST Mutual aid donations are down. The need isn’t. Read part two of EHRP’s Tim Evans and NPR’s Sergio Martínez-Beltrán’s series on Minneapolis immigrant communities surviving the trauma of ...

CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT Congratulations to EHRP grantee Brian Goldstone, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his deeply reported book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, which ...

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 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 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 Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Slate. In a sleepy Washington state beach town roughly five miles from the U.S.–Canada border, you’ll find Birch Bay Storage. Last December, my ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...