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 ...

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 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 Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. It was an early summer morning, and Katy had been up for most of the night. During those hours, she had experienced what she would ...

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 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, 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

At 23, Sony Jayy has been dancing on the New York City Subway for a decade, and the L train is his and his friends’ kingdom. Sony and his friend Malik get on at Union Square. They trade quips until ...