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 and The Nation. Worker protections have been rolled back at the ...

Photography and Interpretation by Anna Watts; Writing by Austyn Gaffney. Co-published and supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Documented. Lazaro, a 67-year-old dairy worker in New ...

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 Mother Jones. Affordability is the new buzzword. It’s yapped by politicians and pundits across the spectrum. It’s as popular as a new TikTok ...

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 rules say check IDs, refuse the drunk, protect the vulnerable. The incentives say do the opposite. Somebody has to live ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and LA Public Press. Since 1986, Karen Noga has lived within 2 miles of the Exide battery smelter, which belched lead and arsenic unabated into ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. When we watch the news now, we often ask ourselves: what disaster movie is this? Is it the one where Americans are shot in ...