Co-published with The Nation. Emeryville, California, recently passed the highest city-wide minimum wage in the country. Here’s how workers’ lives changed—and how they didn’t.

Co-published with Mother Jones. Nearly 1.4 million American households live on $2 per person. Gabriel Thompson reports from one of the nation's poorest areas.

Co-published with Mother Jones. Gabriel Thompson writes about his stint doing "on demand" grunt work for one of America's hottest growth industries.