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Co-published with The Guardian. Don’t scoff: psychological and social science research supports that living amid the wealthy even when you are upper middle class is bad for your mental health
Co-published with WNYC Studios. Shop owners claim a rise in crime after Garner’s death is hurting their businesses and the community.
Co-published with The Nation. Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism.
Co-published with The Guardian. When Kristal Bush’s mother nearly went broke from the expense of visiting her son in prison, Kristal saw an opportunity to connect Philadelphia families to loved ones locked up hours away – and Bridging the Gap was born
Co-published with The Intercept. With such a vast displaced population, Tijuana is a place where people who did not intend to live there learn to become a community.
Co-published with The New York Times. Whatever happened to the "gangbanger"?
Co-published with Bill Moyers & Company. For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.
Co-published with Reuters. Appalachia needs a new chance to do what it does best: make it work.
Co-published with Smithsonian Magazine. To mark the 75th anniversary of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Matt Black and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge, traveled to California's Central Valley, Cleveland and northern Maine to chronicle America's working poor.
Co-published with The New Yorker. In the spring of 2009, Kate Linthicum traveled to rural Ohio to meet the people Eich had been photographing.
Co-published with the Broward Palm Beach New Times. From Trinidad to Miami, photographer Johanne Rahaman showcases the beauty of Black rural life through dynamic portraiture and oral history.
Co-published with TIME. Public schools in wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods are pitching in so that low-income students can have the same level of resources as they do.
Co-published with The Nation. For the ride-share company, teacher/drivers are both a marketing coup and an exploitable labor force.
Co-published with The Guardian. Municipal coffers are being filled by fining those who can least afford it. If fees were tied to wealth, that calculus would shift.
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Co-published with Fortune. As New York City limits Airbnb rentals, the cottage industries that serviced them has been hit particularly hard.