EHRP Has Your Back With an Election Week Rescue Kit
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EHRP brings you this election rescue kit to help our readers process this moment, find connection and take action.
EHRP LATEST
- An expansive new photo series from EHRP/The Nation/Magnum profiles areas beyond the traditional six swing states to capture voters’ most urgent concerns. From job loss to Florida’s abortion restrictions and more, find the full States of Our Union project here.
- EHRP’s latest collaboration with stitch artist Diana Weymar (aka @tinypricksproject) highlights reproductive justice reporting by our journalists. Hyperallergic says the project “[amplifies] the voices of courageous women in post-Roe v. Wade America.” See the embroidered textiles here.
- EHRP reporting fellow Bobbi Dempsey asks seven U.S. voters if they’re better off and more economically stable than they were four years ago. Co-published by EHRP/The Guardian.
Art by Diana Weymar; Quote from reporting by Melissa Malamut for EHRP/Teen Vogue
EHRP FAVORITES
- For EHRP/TIME, former McDonald’s worker Alex Park unpacks the significance of Presidential nominee Kamala Harris highlighting her fast food service work. In Rolling Stone, EHRP Executive Director Alissa Quart writes about Harris as a Gen X candidate.
- Quart also analyzed the dangerous element of working class cosplay in a piece about VP candidate J.D. Vance for EHRP/Literary Hub. Our reporting fellow Ann Larson then joined Quart in Literary Hub to contrast Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy with the solidarity-building effects of the“class defector” memoir. (Hear Quart say more on Phoenix’s NPR affiliate KJZZ.)
EHRP MEETS THE MOMENT
Our team recognizes that together we’re living through uncertain times. The stakes are high; lives are on the line. Caring for ourselves and others is critical to building solidarity and sustaining our movement. We hope you’re finding time to take good care and connect. Here are some ways our team is staying grounded:
- Centering ourselves: Meditate, take breaks, spend time in nature, and practice self compassion.
- Supporting mutual aid: Check out Mutual Aid Hub to find community organizations in your neighborhood.
- Staying connected: Check on your friends and seek support among your community when you feel alone.
- Joining our movement: Every contribution you make to EHRP allows us to fund reporters to write, illustrate, and film stories about economic precarity that will change the conversation – and the policy – about income inequality in the United States.
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The Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports independent journalists so they can create gripping stories which often counter the typical disparaging narratives about inequality. This high-quality journalism is then co-published with mainstream media outlets mobilizing readers to address systemic economic hardship.
