Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Dissent Magazine. Media cooperatives have flourished in the last ...

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, 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 Guardian. When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the sacred prairie in the Black Hills of South ...

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 ...

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 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 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 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 ...

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 Columbia Journalism Review. On a late-September evening in the small coastal town of Homer, Alaska, a reporter named Chloe Pleznac prepared ...

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, ...